Summer Nights is a great back of the border plant. It blooms profusely during the period between the peonies and daylilies. The purple ...Read Morestems provide an interesting contrast to the yellow-orange daisy like blooms. Mine is about five feet tall and does need staking. Although Heliposis is a sun lover, my Summer Nights does wilt on hot days when the sun hits it in the afternoon. It recovers fully the next morning.
I enjoyed this plant very much. First of all, the purplish red stems and leaves in spring were lovely, especially next to my dark purple...Read More irises. Then it was one of the first early summer flowers to bloom, filling in that lag time before the burst of summer flowers. In late summer, I cut the stems back by half and they started to grow more leaves, though there was not enough to flower from the new growth. They looked much tidier that way. In retrospect, I would have cut them in half earlier in midsummer since the blooms were not as important by then, and that way the stems would not have flopped all over my midsummer flowers.
Summer Nights is a great back of the border plant. It blooms profusely during the period between the peonies and daylilies. The purple ...Read More
Overwintered well in zone3b , open area, and in fairly heavy clay soil.
I enjoyed this plant very much. First of all, the purplish red stems and leaves in spring were lovely, especially next to my dark purple...Read More