Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea We have found it very

We have found it very easy to cultivate in our part to full sun rock garden with agaves and cactus

Each clump can produce dozens of 6" flower stalks that are topped with 1" white daisies in early April (NC)

before being moved to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama in 1976

a descriptive name for this dramatic cast iron plant that always stops visitors in their tracks

perfect for the woodland rock garden

Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea We have found it veryThis magnificent ornamental banana is more of a shrub than the typical taller banana. The stiff, thick, leathery, grey green, banana like foliage is borne atop a stalk that can eventually reach 6' in height. Instead of being prized for its fruit, Musella lasiocarpa is grown more for its flowers. Each specimen is home to large, bizarrely beautiful, yellow flowers that look like giant golden artichokes we're not making this up! For us, Musella