If you are a southerner, you no doubt know what a passalong plant is. For those of you that don’t know, it is a plant that is easily propagated, usually not something you find at the local nursery, and it is “passed along” to other gardening friends.

Passalong plants are so much a part of southern gardening that Steve Bender and Felder Rushing wrote a book called Passalong Plants.

If you have never read this book, I urge you to get a copy. When it comes to southern gardening books that are fun to read, this one rates right up there at the top as far as I am concerned.

The book details over 100 different passalong plants, with a great deal of humor. With chapter titles like”Weirdisms,Oddities, and Conversation Pieces” and articles with titles like “Trumpet Vine Brings Down the House” and “Who Ate My Elephant-Ears” I think you get the idea.

The book is not your average gardening book, although it does list botanical as well as common names, hardiness zones, and other growing information about each plant in the book. There is also a listing of sources for each of the plants as some of them are very hard to find, unless you have a friend who will pass them along to you.

I have owned this book for many years and occasionally I get it out to read and it never fails to make me smile.