Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea perfect for the woodland rock

perfect for the woodland rock garden

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

After the flowers fade

or allowing them to go dormant by drying them out and storing them in a cool but frost free location

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

Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea perfect for the woodland rockThis 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