Friday and Saturday I was in Jasper Texas for the annual Native Plant Society symposium. Each year the society puts on a program with speakers and field trips concentrating on a different ecoregion in Texas. This year it was the Big Thicket.
When I registered for the event it was supposed to be in Beaumont, but just a week before it was to take place, the hotel there cancelled because they were still repairing damage incurred by Ike. It was moved further inland to the small town of Jasper, and I have to commend the planners for putting on such a good show when they had to change the arrangements on such short notice.
Of course I came away with goodies for my garden, including this pink turk’s cap variety named for Pam Puryear, which I bought from a vendor.
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Well that pink turk’s cap is unusual.
I just came back from reading about Pam Puyear and also had to hop over to Pam/Digging’s blog to look for that turk’s cap… she showed it in July and called it her mini-me! I wonder if Pam’s Pink made it to the new house?
I’ll bet you had a good time, Bill - even with the unexpected change in location. Somehow never thought of Jasper as a convention city.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Wouldn’t you like to have the job of Greg Grant, who hybridized, or whatever it is called, ‘Pam’s Pink’? Visit cemeteries and rural roads and old homesteads to collect plants, talk to plant people all day, get outdoors whenever you want, visit some of the prettiest nature sites in Texas. Not bad. And ‘Pam’s Pink’ is pretty. I have one, too. Looks great with the red ones. I expect it will look great with the white Turk’s Cap I just bought.
– Tex
The ‘Pam’s Pink’ is lovely. I got mine at Hill Country Water Gardens in Cedar Park, and yes, Annie, it did come to the new house with me. I couldn’t leave my mini-me behind.
it almost looks like a hibiscus bud!! Sure is pretty.
I don’t think that kind of turk’s cap grows up here. We can grow turk’s cap lilies, but that’s something else, a true lily.
Have you seen the giant Turks Cap Bill? It’s another Greg Grant find. Flowers the size of golf balls, spectacular.