Maltese Cross – S1

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!