Leonotis leonurus Fred Meyer Sharp drainage is everything

Sharp drainage is everything

a testament to sheer vigor

Native to the moist woods and pond margins of the eastern United States

Clerodendrum trichotomum has been cultivated in Western gardens since the mid-1800s

when the shrub reveals a true identity in a profusion of rose-red

Leonotis leonurus Fred Meyer Sharp drainage is everythingFew late summer plants command a border like Leonotis leonurus, the lion's ear of the South African veld. Tall square stems, the signature of the mint family, Lamiaceae, rise five feet and more before breaking into tier upon tier of burnt orange flowers, each whorl circling the stem like a ruff. The velvety, curved tubes are the source of both common names, lion's ear and lion's tail, and the botany agrees: Leonotis comes from the Greek for lion's