Eucomis comosa Deer-Resistant saturated color that reads from

saturated color that reads from a distance and holds through the first hard frosts

a look that earned the old country names old man's beard and grancy graybeard

fast-draining sand

A camellia with a story we can only half tell

and given water and feeding the plant will build to a full summer show once more

Eucomis comosa Deer-Resistant saturated color that reads fromThe pineapple lily, Eucomis comosa, is a summer flowering bulb from the grasslands and damp meadows of eastern South Africa, grown the world over for one of the most whimsical flower spikes in the plant kingdom. From a large bulb rise broad, strap shaped leaves, and out of their center in mid to late summer climbs a stout stalk two to three feet tall, densely packed with dozens of small, starry, greenish white flowers and crowned at the very top with