City Gardening

a gardening journal by Lorraine Flanigan

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Can’t Do Without Acanthus

By Lorraine • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Favourite Plants, Fresh Dirt

For the last three years, I’ve been anxiously watching the progress (or lack thereof) of Acanthus hungaricus, a spectacular architectural perennial I fell in love with on a trip to Jordan, Ontario in the Niagara Region. For the first two summers, the plant was barely there. Last year, it seemed to leaf out into a [...]