Elettaria cardamomum Brookgreen Gardens cut the tired fronds back

cut the tired fronds back before the fiddleheads climb

and the tree carries deep ethnobotanical weight across the native range

this rockrose does well in the South too

settle the pitch of a slope

Cyrilla parvifolia 'Small Leaf' also settles readily into garden conditions

Elettaria cardamomum Brookgreen Gardens cut the tired fronds backTrue cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum, is a lush, aromatic member of the ginger family and the source of green cardamom, the ancient and costly spice traded for millennia along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean. Native to the humid, evergreen hill forests of southern India and Sri Lanka, the plant grows in the dappled shade of the understory, in deep, fertile, always moist soil. Ranked historically among the most valuable spices in the world,