Acanthus

My acanthus has been blooming for weeks and I forgot to make a note of it on here. (I finished with the one blog and got out of the habit of making posts on anything.) I bought the acanthus many years ago and it seemed as if it died the minute I put it in the ground.
Two years later we had an extremely cold winter with lots of ice storms. That seemed to do the trick. The acanthus came up the next spring and has been growing and spreading ever since. Acanthus is known for its leaves and is the leaf that's often featured on Corinthian column capitals. It grows generally like a hosta with a cluster of leaves coming from the roots and flower stalks that come up from the center. The stalks grow about two feet tall and are creepy looking purple green snapdragon-style flowers. They're really cool. I'm not sure which variety I have.