Sinningia tubiflora Tony's Favorites The red flying saucer-like flowers

The red flying saucer-like flowers top the clump in late April

while not show-stopping

adjacent to the South Carolina Darlington Raceway

the flowers are held in long pendent racemes instead of the typical upright spikes

it provides a very unique vertical element with spikes of red

Sinningia tubiflora Tony's Favorites The red flying saucer-like flowers(aka: Sinningia longituba) One of the real joys of gardening is finding a plant that you think can't be hardy and then discovering that it becomes an easy to grow staple in your garden. Such is the case with the hardy gloxinia, Sinningia tubiflora. Forming large underground tubers, Sinningia tubiflora not only lives, but spreads nicely in our rock garden. All summer long, the green, felty leaf clumps are topped with 20" tall spikes of 6" long, very