Featured New Arrival: Talinum Paniculatum

Botanically speaking, Limón talinum is Talinum paniculatum and is in the portulaca family. Also called Jewels-of-Opar, this lovely annual has attractive, succulent-looking chartreuse foliage and is quick to send up arching panicles adorned with light to coral star-shaped flowers. Look forward to continuous flushes of bloom which will brighten your garden all summer long. Once the flowers take have given their all, fruit capsules remain that are amber-colored at first finishing off to a cinnamon red continue to gently sway in the wind.

Bijou D’Opar. Buy it just for the name. Sip your drink from a tall stemmed glass and remark, “Yes, I have bijou d’opar in my garden,” and feel sophisticated and superior to all the rest.