Matteuccia struthiopteris The King Perennial Plant of the Year looking indeed like a bloody

looking indeed like a bloody nose (late April in NC)

Bonariensis (latin for "Buenos Aires") vervain is great in the garden or in flower arrangements

often tinged with a pink picotee edge and back

and a quick way to hide your untidy neighbors

This is a very slow-growing plant that will take a few years to show the mature characteristics that make it so distinctive

Matteuccia struthiopteris The King Perennial Plant of the Year looking indeed like a bloody(aka: Matteuccia 'Fanfare') Matteuccia 'The King' is an amazing selection of ostrich fern, distributed by the late Larry Mellichamp, who got it from NC's Powell's Garden around 1985. Matteuccia 'The King' is one of the few forms we've found that thrives in the hot, humid southeastern US, where normal ostrich ferns fear to tread. The 3' tall deciduous rosettes (6' tall under ideal conditions) spread vigorously via underground rhizomes. In nature, the