Setaria palmifolia - Flickr - peganum (2)

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Description: I bought this at Ford Abbey nursery in Dorset last Autumn and kept it in it's pot all winter because I knew it would be of dubious frost hardiness. A lot of supposedly hardier things perished in there but there were signs of life come the spring so I stuck it in the border in May, not expecting much to come of it. And here it is in September - a major feature of the sunny border with the Datisca, Helianthus salicifolius and such like. I'll have to lift at least some of it before the frost but pretty good going don't you think? Update: bigger and better now in summer 2010 - no problems at all last winter. Date: 6 September 2009, 12:37. Source: Setaria palmifolia. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.