Photo - Bear's Breech (Acanthus mollis)

Here's a big beatuful plant with large leaves

and tall (over 4' high) flower spikes.

Bear's Breech blooms in the late Spring and early Summer.

This perennial will go dormant in the winter in areas

of overnight winter tempatures below 40 degrees,

but they will come back by the following Spring.

Photo by Doug Kalal, taken at a client's house in Pacific Beach