Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea before being moved to the

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

with nice branching rhizomes and an extra wide

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

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

perfect for the woodland rock garden

Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea before being moved to theThis 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