Texas Gardening: What has been your favorite Perennial THIS year?, 1 by okus

okus wrote:
Now my Texas star, at least the one in the drier sunnier bit, is huge this year. Its about 8 ft tall!! But it only has one or two blooms a day.
Interestingly the two Texas Star plants have slightly different flowers and leaves. One has a more finely cut leaf than the other, The fine leafed one has finer flowers with the sepals showing between the petals too. Its the coarser one that is doing best.
This is the fine one: