Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens with little competition from neighbors

with little competition from neighbors

Deer generally leave the fronds alone

this is a collector's native for the sunny meadow

drought-tolerant once established

Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens with little competition from neighborsChitalpa tashkentensis is a plant with a passport, an intergeneric hybrid that pairs the American desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, with a catalpa, and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy, drought hardy frame of the other. The name itself is a splice, Chilopsis joined to Catalpa, while tashkentensis records the birthplace, the botanical garden at Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where the cross was raised in the 1960s. From that