Acanthus Summer Beauty Green Flowering Plants who all rave about it

who all rave about it (some on general principle)

If regular wine cups don't fit into your color scheme (they do clash with old blue Chevys and flue-pipe planters)

Unlike many of the other hardy calanthes

deep blue flowers

longipes var

Acanthus Summer Beauty Green Flowering Plants who all rave about itWe feel this import by the late Oregon plantsman Chet Tompkins from a gardener in China is one of the finest acanthus on the market. Where Acanthus mollis fails miserably, Acanthus 'Summer Beauty', a hybrid (probably Acanthus mollis x Acanthus hungaricus), grows well in our hot summers. The 4 6' wide clump of giant, glossy, dark green foliage is more cutleaf than typical Acanthus mollis. In June (NC), the tropical looking, deer resistant clumps are