I've grown it with pretty mixed results. At best, we get stems about 8 to 10 inches long and the plants produce for a few months. I don't know whether it's drought or wetness that does them in, but they usually seem to rot out by midsummer.

It seems they really hate cold weather. We've done best when they've been protected with row cover until June. They also may not like transplating -- that's what some sources say. I may try treating them more like celosia than like regular statice -- wait to start it until mid-May or so, then transplant when very young into warmed soil. I may even try direct sowing in early June.

It dries very nicely and it's useful in bouquets, so I'm going to keep trying to get bigger flower spikes and more of them.