i love these flowers, so impressive bought a one yr old plant from a nursery year before last and kept it in a pot as i knew we were moving. anyway when we moved I planted against a west facing wall and i thought it would b fine cos i live near the city centre we don't get very severe frosts.

anyway unfortunately when we were away at my wife's parents for xmas it snowed and i thought the snow which had settled on the crown had killed it. Suprisingly come spring while the crown was dead the plant sent up neumerous flower spikes from below the crown, and by the end of the summer it looked like a curly wig of those lovely small purple flowers. Was quite a feature, however unfortunately it then died over the next winter and the film which had pictures of the "wig" corrupted and so i have no record of it