Orostachys fimbriata Ampelaster This unique giant black-eyed Susan

This unique giant black-eyed Susan has a deciduous basal rosette of waxy blue foliage resembling a collard (that's sort of like a cabbage to you northern folks)

Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' is a 1996 introduction

Lycoris x squamigera is great mixed into the border for a summer change or naturalized in the deciduous woodland garden

woodland conditions and are proven to be quite easy to grow

Orostachys fimbriata Ampelaster This unique giant black-eyed Susan(syn: Sedum limuloides) Orostachys fimbriata is certainly one of the most unique members of the duncecaps, looking amazingly like a punk spiked hairdo with far too much dusty brown hair color. The soft, fleshy rosettes offset slowly making an eye catching small clump for the rock garden. In September, the rosettes appear to be erupting like a miniature volcano. The top of the "volcano cone" is actually a flower spike that is adorned with small white