Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias topped in mid-spring with large

topped in mid-spring with large pocketbook-like flowers of creamy white flushed with burgundy

Although Adiantum caudatum emerges late here after a hard winter

At the northern end of the range Aspidistra 'Okame' may suffer from winter burn which is easily relieved by a spring haircut

but my guess is

looking like a pink alien head with a white neck and a green speckled hood

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Asclepias topped in mid-spring with largeThanks to hardy palm grower Larry Green for sharing seed from the Sabal palmetto growing at his former family home in Mocksville, NC (1 hour southwest of Winston Salem). Larry tells us this Sabal palmetto was planted around 1980, and survived the mega death winter of 1984 85 in NC. Larry's palm was grown from seed he collected years earlier from a Sabal palmetto at a motel in Fayetteville, NC, which also still survives. The broad fronds are less