Eucomis comosa Deer-Resistant the male stays cleaner underfoot

the male stays cleaner underfoot

A camellia with a story we can only half tell

a look that earned the old country names old man's beard and grancy graybeard

The native American species carried something of that reputation into practice: the Cherokee used shrubby St

and a few cut branches of gold berries bring something rare to a holiday arrangement

Eucomis comosa Deer-Resistant the male stays cleaner underfootThe pineapple lily, Eucomis comosa, is a summer flowering bulb from the grasslands and damp meadows of eastern South Africa, grown the world over for one of the most whimsical flower spikes in the plant kingdom. From a large bulb rise broad, strap shaped leaves, and out of their center in mid to late summer climbs a stout stalk two to three feet tall, densely packed with dozens of small, starry, greenish white flowers and crowned at the very top with