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color. He has many of the old-standard
varieties. His favorite is camellia japonica
‘Mathiotiana,’ a bluish-tinged red with
huge seven-to-eight-inch flowers.
“And gloriosa daisy (Rudbeckia gloriosa)
is a great plant for everyone,” McCaleb
says. The flowers are yellow with a
mahogany center and bloom all summer
in Wilmington.
Other old-fashioned favorites include
the blue lobelia (Lobelia syphilitica, once
used to treat syphilis), goblin flower
(Gaillardia), and spider flower (Cleome
hasslerana), all grown from heirloom seeds
acquired from another architect, Thomas
Jefferson, from his Monticello, Virginia
garden. There are cannas, lilies, rain lil-ies
rescued from a field, fig and gingers.
A lovely gladiola (Gladiolus dalenii) was
rescued from a cemetery about to be
destroyed. Its flowers are orange fading
to a neon-yellow throat. It was widely
collected in the 19th century — the
Victorians loved it. He has a vitex grown
from seed collected on the property of a
former school, now leveled.
“If you run your hand along the
stems,” he says, “you get a great scent
like lavender.”