I'm crazy about pineapple lilies, bulbs in the genus Ucomas.

And though in my zone 5 garden they aren't hardy, I can't imagine a growing season without

pots full of them. In his South Carolina garden and the ones't hardy. I can't imagine a growing season without pots full of them.

In his South Carolina garden and the ones he makes for design clients, today's guests

can use them even more lavishly as perennials and beds and even meadows.

So, you can't miss no matter where you garden or today's topic, but first these messages.

My guest today is Jank's farmer, a long-time horticulturist and garden designer, and also

a writer with several books to his credit and a sub-stack newsletter that I'm really

enjoying and more to come.

He's founder of Jank's farmer, Plantsman, which makes gardens for clients and is also

a male-order nursery specializing in unusual bulbs.

Hi, Jank's, I'm so glad to talk to you again as always.

How are you?

I'm great now.

I am great.

I'm happy to be here, and especially to talk about you,

calmness.

Yeah.

Yeah, so maybe I'm, yeah, sorry.

Go ahead.

Well, when we started this, this kind of running conversation

that we've had about you,almus, I really thought, I don't know that there's enough about Eucalmus, they're pretty simple, but it's been fun

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