Anisodontea elegans

I'm sure everyone else already knows and grows this plant but since
I've only just discovered it.... I don't think it is, in fact, that
much grown in the UK, at least, where we seem happy to stick with A.
capensis and/or A. hypomadarum. Charming plants, true, but with
nothing like the sheer class of the appropriately named A. elegans,
surely. Just in case there are one or two other folks around as slow
on the uptake as I've been about it, it has finely cut silvery
greygreen foliage and fat silvery buds leading to cool white flowers
of a good size (and with an  exaggeratedly protuberant
stamen-cluster). Here it's made so far an upright slender column  to
around 3ft but I suspect has still got a way to go before reaching its
full size. Are there other Anisodonteas tucked away in S.African
flora, apart from A. capensis and A. hypomadarum, which I ought to be
growing? Damp, rather than cold, sees these creatures off in the
ground in my garden but all of them (and particularly A. elegans) make
splendid and absolutely fool-proof pot-plants.
Tim Longville
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