Acanthus Summer Beauty Green Flowering Plants pink form of Salvia greggii

pink form of Salvia greggii collected by Pat McNeal near Saltillo

certainly in two

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

fragrant flowers

Acanthus Summer Beauty Green Flowering Plants pink form of Salvia greggiiWe 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