Maltese Cross
This gorgeous survivor has acquired many names, such as London Pride, Scarlet Mountain Lychnis, and Jerusalem Cross, over its 400+ years in cultivation. An early broadsheet of seeds in America lists it in 1803, and it was planted in Jefferson's garden at Monticello soon after. The flame-colored flowers look great with blue canterbury bells and sundrops in the early summer garden and are deer and rabbit resistant too!
Description
This gorgeous survivor has acquired many names, such as London Pride, Scarlet Mountain Lychnis, and Jerusalem Cross, over its 400+ years in cultivation. An early broadsheet of seeds in America lists it in 1803, and it was planted in Jefferson's garden at Monticello soon after. The flame-colored flowers look great with blue canterbury bells and sundrops in the early summer garden and are deer and rabbit resistant too!
