This is a wonderful perennial in my CT garden. I inherited it when I moved here in 2006, and I look forward each spring for its shoots t...Read Morehat grow fast to about 3 feet high with scads of billowy small white blooms that look like little fluttering butterflies. I have successfully propagated it by very careful small divisions without losing the parent plant. No nearby nurseries offer it for sale.
Mine are in full sun, but I am planting new ones I sent for from Oregon in partial sun next to the baptisia on the other side of the garden.
I LOVE this plant. It's well behaved and, at full growth, a pleasure to behold!
I don't understand why this plant is not more popular. When it is in bloom it has a delicate grace. It's flowers bring to mind many tin...Read Morey white butterflies dancing around the plant.
When they finish blooming it fades to the background but is never an eyesore. It lookes great growing with hostas. You can propagate it easily from cuttings.
I moved this plant from my New England garden to eastern PA last fall and it came back quite nicely. In both cases it was growing on the...Read More north side of the house. It is a beautiful delicate looking plant which can easily be overlooked if grown with larger more robust looking specimens..
While slow to get started, this native to the NE is a great addition to the perennial border, woodland garden or shady garden areas. Bene...Read Morefits from initial support as young shoots tend to lay on the ground; mature plants also need staking (at least under my growing conditions). Lovely white flowers with contrasting reddish buds; personally, I wouldn't do without it.
Adopted by American colonists; listed in U.S. Pharmacopoeia (1820-82; Gillenia trifoliata) - root bark used medicinally as emetic, purgative and expectorant.
Has toothed, 3-palmate, bronze green leaves on reddish stems. Bears white ...Read Moreto pink flushed, lance shaped petal flowers.
Flowers anywhere between May and September.
Likes a moist, well drained, acid - neutral, humus rich soil in partial shade, will tolerate sun but needs shade in the hottest part of the day. Great in a woodland garden.
It is a beautiful graceful plant that does well in the Pacific Northwest, but it took it a while to really get started.
I ...Read More
This is a wonderful perennial in my CT garden. I inherited it when I moved here in 2006, and I look forward each spring for its shoots t...Read More
This plant is easy to grow, the dainty flowers are beautiful, it's native and it takes on great red fall color.
I don't understand why this plant is not more popular. When it is in bloom it has a delicate grace. It's flowers bring to mind many tin...Read More
I moved this plant from my New England garden to eastern PA last fall and it came back quite nicely. In both cases it was growing on the...Read More
While slow to get started, this native to the NE is a great addition to the perennial border, woodland garden or shady garden areas. Bene...Read More
An erect perennial from Eastern North America.
Has toothed, 3-palmate, bronze green leaves on reddish stems. Bears white ...Read More