This vary variation of mountain thistle ( Acanthus montanus‘Frieling ’s Sensation ’ , geographical zone 7 - 11 ) was dicovered by Ohio nursery Glasshouse knead in the former 1980s , and it ’s just as care - grabbing today as it surely was then . It ’s burry leaves are cloud and splashed with white and steal the show in any container planting , as well as in the ground . It ’s a one - humans show in this planter at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn , New York . Mountain thistles are aboriginal to westerly Africa and prefer full sun or fond shadowiness and fertile , dampish , well - drained soil .
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Click here to enlarge this photo.Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
