Hippeastrum Blossom Peacock Puya (aka: Ligularia tussilaginea) This unusual

(aka: Ligularia tussilaginea) This unusual Japanese selection of leopard plant could easily have been named "snow leopard

Hans Hansen

densely clothed with small

ornamental selections of US native plants

emerges from the bulb on a very mottled

Hippeastrum Blossom Peacock Puya (aka: Ligularia tussilaginea) This unusualHippeastrum 'Blossom Peacock' has been one of the most stunning bulbs in our garden trials at JLBG. Our oldest plantings are more than a decade old, and in that time, have formed dense clumps. The 20" tall, thick stalks emerge for us in mid May, topped with huge, 7" full double, sweetly fragrant flowers with bicolor red and white flowers. Where they aren't winter hardy, they make superb container plants, as long as they are fed well when the foliage