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 hungaricus \u2013 Acanthus balcanicus \u2013 Acanthus longifolius<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Native to the Balkans it grows into a clump 24-48\u201d tall and 24-36\u201d wide. \u00a0It has oblong-rounded to egg shape dark green leaves 24-36\u201d tall with deep lobes narrowed at the bases and wide winged midribs between the main lobes. \u00a0Bears 24-48\u201d long stems with white pale pink flowers with purple shaded bracts. \u00a0Blooming early to midsummer.<\/p>\n Zones6-9<\/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":26104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[49,21,41,31,20],"product_tag":[75],"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-160252379"},"_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\/3874"}],"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=3874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}