Erythrina bidwillii Insect Attracting Plants This unique giant black-eyed Susan

This unique giant black-eyed Susan has a deciduous basal rosette of waxy blue foliage resembling a collard (that's sort of like a cabbage to you northern folks)

under the watchful eye of William Macarthur

this easy-to-grow perennial forms 2' tall x 2' wide clumps of upright stems

when very little other than yellow composites are usually in flower

This is the most cold-tolerant

Erythrina bidwillii Insect Attracting Plants This unique giant black-eyed SusanIn the early 1840s at Australia's Camden Park, under the watchful eye of William Macarthur, our US coral bean, Erythrina herbacea, had some unsafe sex with the South American Erythrina crista galli back when international treaties still allowed such debauchery. What they were doing there together is still an untold story, but what resulted is one helluva offspring. Erythrina x bidwillii emerges from the ground in late spring to form a 6' tall x 8'