Ephederas are a strange, unique group of plants. Probably best known as a dietary supplement for weight loss, but is currently illegal for use as a supplement because of the whole problem with people dying. Not to good. But don't let the fact that this is a terrible thing to eat stop you from enjoying the fact that it is a beautiful addition to the garden. Their highly toxic nature makes them absolutely pest proof, even deer and rabbits won't mess with it, and the narrow, upright, green stems makes a beautiful and very different look in the garden. Female plants will produce small, bright orange-red fleshy berry like cones. These plants are unsexed seedlings, so we can't guarantee the sex you'll get. Extraordinarily tolerant of dry, but thrives equally well in wetter conditions, all-in-all a very beautiful, very unique, and entirely bullet-proof plant. Zone 5, maybe colder

Another tiny little clump former with pale, pale blue daisy flowers

A large showy species from the Pyrenees this is very permanent for us, having persisted for years in our rock garden, is sows about moderately but has never been a weed with large magenta flowers for months we think it is one of the best large Erodiums.____ZONE 5

A glaucous perennial to 60cm tall it's native to Europe and S.W. Asia with the typical heads of flowers surrounded by bluish white spiny bracts up to 4.5cm long.____ZONE 4

Very different look than most of this genus, leaves are indeed very yucca-like, long, narrow, and strap-like, edged with small, non-lethal, teeth. Leaves rise 2-3 feet, and then in late summer, the flowers come up a couple feet above that, big clusters of greenish-white spheres that all but lack the usual Ernygium bracts. Will grow just about anywhere, but inclined to be floppy unless grown lean and in full sun. Zone 3