Pyrrosia lingua O Kan Kosteletzkya Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a

Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a 2001 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction that we first met in the late 1990s on a visit to the late garden writer Pam Harper's coastal Virginia garden

The longevity was additionally significant in that this part of NC was either Zone 6 or a very cold end of Zone 7 decades ago when Jimmy "discovered" this plant

attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies

we visited plantsman Rick Lewandowski at Shangri La Botanical Gardens in southeast Texas

Pyrrosia lingua O Kan Kosteletzkya Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is aPyrrosia lingua 'O Kan' is a little known Japanese tongue fern selection with thumb width, cardboard like evergreen leaves, each horizontally banded yellow and green, and with large marginal protuberances. Due to their pencil lead thin rhizomes, which lay flat on the growing surface, pyrrosias usually occur in the wild as epiphytes, although they adapt well to organic soils, especially when grown on slopes. In colder climates, pyrrosias also make