Frequently enough, it's bunched together with its up-facing relative, datura, but there's a defining difference. Then, at Logee's, there are plants that have yet to acquire a second or third name, plants so rare we still have poor luck finding references to. This is called once and maybe for all time, Nashia Inaguensis, an upright fellow with small, box-like leaves that glint in the light as if sprinkled with fairy pollen. In its native habitat, the Bahamian island of Little Inagua, she says, it's an endangered species. But there are more choice plants that don't have those requirements.
Customers pass along, marked catalogues in hand, and full of questions.
Mrs. Martin answers them with unfailing kindness, her responses having the smooth grace of an accustomed hostess, as, perhaps, she points out the Easter significance of passion flowers. And it's the same, on through the Lemon Tree House and the Fern House and, outdoors and down some steps, into the Herb House, where we have to make up our minds, which lavenders to buy for outdoors. Here Mrs. Martin points out to a new employee a scented geranium infestation needing attention, in the same kindly fashion. Logee's has moved with the times. A brand new greenhouse stands on a rise where there had been a grove of trees.