Sorghastrum nutans Slim Pickens Verbascum nigrescens is the NBA-sized bloom

nigrescens is the NBA-sized bloom stalk

Everyone who has seen this at our garden has asked about it

and in a well drained soil

the fronds will produce new plantlets along the edges of the leaves

Cardamine quinquefolia has formed a stunning 3' wide patch in four years

Sorghastrum nutans Slim Pickens Verbascum nigrescens is the NBA-sized bloomSorghastrum nutans 'Slim Pickens' is a 2022 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a very heat and humidity loving, blue foliaged form of the widespread US native species, that we spotted originally in the habitat garden section of the South Carolina Botanical Garden. A shared piece has been evaluated at JLBG since 2018, and we continue to be impressed. Other, more northerly forms have failed to thrive for us, but this collection from Pickens County, SC