Each year Acanthus mollis returns to gardens in Redlands. In fact, their familiar leaves are already popping up in some yards. Acanthus mollis, commonly called bear’s breeches, is one of the great ...
Acanthus mollis, commonly called bear’s breeches, is popping up in yards in Redlands. Acanthus mollis is one of the great garden plants. Originally found growing among the ancient Romans ruins, it ...
STEPHEN RYAN: Some plants are just so common and so easy to grow that they're almost held in contempt. And one such is Acanthus mollis or Bear's Breeches. It is a Mediterranean style plant, so it's ...
As a second generation native of dry Los Angeles, the plants that stand out in my memory are those that have survived our periodic droughts. Many of these were remnants of earlier eras — first the ...
As I’m a second-generation native of dry Los Angeles, the plants that stand out in my memory are those that have survived our periodic droughts. Many of these were remnants of earlier eras – first the ...
Imagine a plant in your garden that resembles a living sculpture and dates back before the 4th century B.C.! Its name is acanthus, and it’s possible. Commonly called bear’s breech, leaves of this ...
The statuesque Acanthus spinosus makes one of the finest silhouettes in the winter garden. Sturdy stems carry a whorl of 30 or so flowers, each capable of producing a shiny, rich-brown, elliptical ...
For such an elegant plant in flower, its common name of bear's breeches seems less than suitable. But this rather fanciful name has the merit of being easy to remember. The botanical name of acanthus ...
This has been a particularly good year for acanthus. The flower spikes have been tremendous, both in quantity and quality, with some in my own garden reaching as high as 8ft tall. These spikes have ...
One of my favourite spiky garden plants is acanthus. There are two species, Acanthus spinosus and A. mollis, both of which have dramatic spires of flowers. A. spinosus grows naturally in Greece, and ...
Q: I unwisely planted an acanthus seedling in the shady but damp back corner of a large flower bed. Ten years later, it seems set on world domination! I’ve tried to dig out roots to force it back into ...
- widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers ...
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