What’s in Peggy’s Suitcase?

I have just returned from a gardener’s dream vacation. The plants I saw at spring plant trials in California are the latest and greatest breeding improvements, and they come to California to show off. I have much more to say about this vacation, but today I want to play a fun game where you guess what I brought back in my suitcase. I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t dirty clothes and extra shoes. I mailed those home to make room for plants.

It’s not an original idea. When I went to the Garden Writers Conference a few years ago, most of the people who flew put free plants in their suitcase and shipped their clothes. I’ve always wanted to be one of those people, and now I am.

I shipped 6 boxes of plants home because there is only so much room in my suitcase. So the game is to guess how many of these plants fit in my suitcase.

Ligularia tussilaginea ‘Shishi Botan’ is what the tag says, but it might be Farfugium japonicum ‘Shishi Botan’

Rohdea japonica. The tag doesn’t specify the cultivar, but it looks ‘Suncrest’ to me.

Toad lily (Tricyrtis ‘Tojen’)

A collection of succulents

This one’s my favorite. Prostrate Beauty Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara ‘Prostrate Beauty’)

This is a ginger, but I can’t find the tag.

A female kiwi vine. I already have a male.

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Variegated leopard plant (Ligularia tussilaginea ‘Argentea’). I need to cut its flower off so it concentrates on setting roots.

Meyer’s asparagus fern (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Meyeri’)

Perennial sweet William (Dianthus barbatus ‘Heart Attack’)

Euphorbia

This next picture is the last one, so make your guess before you scroll through. You don’t want to see the answer and spoil the game.

Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub (Pieris ‘Katsura’)

The correct answer is…all of them, plus four others that don’t look good enough to make the post. This next picture is of the plants I shipped home. – I went a little crazy at Annie’s Annuals.

None of those plants were part of Spring Trials, but I thought you might be interested to see the plants that were so fabulous I had to have them, even if it meant shipping them over 2000 miles.

Since I’m talking about my trip home, I have a story about going through airport security. It has nothing to do with the plants; they were in my checked luggage. So, I’m busy putting my stuff on the x-ray machine’s conveyor, and there is a man whose job is to continuously yell, “Take your cell phones out of your pockets. Put your cell phones in your luggage.”  After hearing it over a dozen times, I said, “Excuse me sir. I have a question. Where should I put my cell phone?” He and everyone else around me cracked up; it was the perfect ending to a wonderful trip.