Genus of 30 species of perennials originating form dry rocky sites in the Mediterranean. \u00a0These are vigorous grower with architectural features. \u00a0With bold striking foliage and flowers. \u00a0The 36\u201d long leaves are dark green, lance-shaped, rounded to egg shape forming at the base and variously lobed and toothed and sometimes spiny. \u00a0On 4-foot tall stems it bears 2-lipped flowers about 1 \u00bd-2\u201d long with spiny bracts with leave segments in combination of white, green, yellow, pink, or purple.<\/p>\n
Inside grow in soil based potting mix in full or filtered sun. \u00a0Water moderately with a balanced liquid fertilizer monthly, keep moist in winter.<\/p>\n
Outdoors grows in fertile moist sand, clay, silt, and organic matter soil, but has to be well drained. In full or partial sun.<\/p>\n
Prone to powdery mildew<\/i><\/em>, fungal leaf spots<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and bacterial leaf spot.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Acanthus hirsutus<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Native to Turkey this clump or mounding forming perennial will grow 7-14\u201d tall and 12\u201d wide. The leaves, 10-14\u201d tall are slender, semi erect, lance shaped, and featherlike, weakly, spiny, dark green leaves. \u00a0On single stems bears pale yellow or greenish white flowers with spiny yellowish green bracts. \u00a0Blooming from late spring to midsummer.<\/p>\n Zones 8-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acanthus \u2013 Bear\u2019s breeches – Genus of 30 species of perennials originating form dry rocky sites in the Mediterranean. \u00a0These are vigorous grower with architectural features. \u00a0With bold striking foliage and flowers. \u00a0The 36\u201d long leaves are dark green, lance-shaped, rounded to egg shape forming at the base and variously lobed and toothed and sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,32,41,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252378"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}