Sporobolus maximus Salta Splendor Manfreda covered with feeding bees

covered with feeding bees

and Caesalpinia mexicana

is equally at home in a rock garden or among stepping stones

7" long x 2" wide

Sporobolus maximus Salta Splendor Manfreda covered with feeding beesWe first met the amazing Sporobolus maximus 'Salta Splendor' on a 2002 trip to Northern Argentina, and was instantly in love. There it grew native, only in a narrow band around lakeshores with the native pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana). While giant dropseed lives fine for us in the southeast US, it never thrives or flowers like it does in more desert climates. This stunning, tightly clumping ornamental grass tops out at 8' tall when in plume,