Last June at the Friends of Manito plant sale in Spokane, WA, I had the chance to pick up a couple of 4” containers. Here’s what they looked like then…
As they first started to get their "cap"...
And now, as a dunce cap has truly taken shape …
Annie’s description: “Beginning as a low dense spreading mat (to 12” across) of lovely small blue-grey rosettes, it soon forms a multitude of totally cool pinkish conical spires inspiring one to imagine a little elfin cityscape. In late Summer-Fall, the spires reach 6” tall, blossoming with pink & white frilly flowers much like a miniature “Tower of Jewels”…Will die after flowering but it self-sows & makes side rosettes to repeat its magic every year!”
I only know one person who has grown this plant and she’d never had any luck with them self-sowing as Annie says they will. Have you?
Not all of the clump is forming a cap so I hope some of these will live on to entertain me next year…
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