Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea After the flowers fade

After the flowers fade

perfect for the woodland rock garden

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

and butterflies

Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea After the flowers fadeThis 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