Collection: Adam's needle
We have a soft spot for spiky, desert-looking plants. This is one of the few that we can truly grow successfully in our zone five garden and we love it! It is native to the southeastern US, but it grows happily almost anywhere: full sun, part shade, dry soil, sandy soil, average soil, moist soil. It is salt, drought, heat, rabbit, and deer resistant. It spreads easily by offshoots, root cutting, seed, or division.
The tall panicles of creamy, white bell-shaped flowers are held on stiff stems above the spiky, glaucous rosette of evergreen foliage in early summer. Flowers don’t last long but they do give way to highly ornamental seed pods that look like miniature green gourds.