Morina

Plants that always arouse interest. They are visually a curious combination of a thistle and a rarefied penstemon. They have spiny looking green leaves and the vertical flowering spikes carry whorled flowers, all rather separated. They have long slender tubes and little flared mouths. The flowers are coloured in soft pink to white shades and sit upon a ring of spiny bracts. These need space to themselves, not only as they readily succumb to competition from other plants, but also because they deserve to be viewed as small separate specimens. They don't like to be transplanted once they have become established. These are summer flowering and stand around 90cm in height.