Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorum

Each clump of Agave potatorum 'Bluewinds' is composed of 6" long x 3" wide blue leaves

rich soils and a lightly shaded location are ideal

Musella lasiocarpa has sailed through more than two decades of winters in our zone 7b garden

sure to be the conversation piece in any garden

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorumDid someone mention a white flowering silphium? This odd duck in an otherwise yellow flowered genus is an endemic to calcareous (pH ~6. 8) gravely prairie soils in a couple dozen central Texas counties. The basal fuzzy green rickrack patterned leaves, which always align in a North South orientation, resemble a really funky head of stringy green hair topped by 2 3' tall flower spikes in late spring, each ending in clusters of large white asters, and