Liatris spicata Bill Cawthon a lovely departure from the

a lovely departure from the usual fire-engine red of this tough native mallow

Arbutus x andrachnoides crosses the strawberry tree

yet takes with surprising ease to ordinary garden soil

in the same series as the purple 'New Orleans'

needle-like leaves that spiral tightly around the stems

Liatris spicata Bill Cawthon a lovely departure from theLiatris spicata, the blazing star or gayfeather, sends up rockets of feathery purple in the heart of summer, one of the great vertical accents of the North American prairie. The species is native to the moist meadows, prairies, and wet savannas of eastern North America, where the flower spikes once rose in their thousands among the tall grasses. Set against those horizontal sweeps of grass, the erect, bottlebrush spikes give any planting a jolt of