Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea After the flowers fade

After the flowers fade

clothed to the top with long smooth green leaves

and butterflies

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

with nice branching rhizomes and an extra wide

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