Cynara cardunculus Aroids uniform selection of Helleborus x

uniform selection of Helleborus x hybridus

sounds like one of fancy royal folks with four names and a hyphen

Each flower is a sweetly fragrant

as some were used to assist birth

long before dwarf mondo grasses were popular

Cynara cardunculus Aroids uniform selection of Helleborus xThe famed cardoon, aka Cynara cardunculus, makes a dramatic winter evergreen statement in the sunny perennial border with its 3 4' long, arching, ghost like, jagged, soft grey foliage. Once the 4' wide drought loving clumps are established, they are topped with 6' tall stalks of blue violet, thistle like flowers in late summer. After flowering, cardoons die to the ground for a month long rest before re sprouting. For a striking, bold textured accent