The striking features of this perennial are enhanced by stiff flower spikes bearing hooded gray-purple flowers that rise above the dramatic foliage. A bit slow to become established, but patient gardeners will not be disappointed. Most likely, this is a hybrid between a mollis and spinosus. Slip this 2-3' Yarrow in sunny borders for easy summer color. These look nothing like any other Yarrow we've ever grown, and have a slightly Dr. Seuss-like presence.
Plants appreciate average to lean soils in full sun.
With foliage resembling tiny golden iris, Golden Dwarf Sweet Flag is especially striking carpeting the ground beneath dark foliaged plants, such as purple Heucheras or Black Mondo Grass. Evergold foliage, not the springtime sedge-like bloom, is the strength of this plant and keeps it glowing all year long. For our southern gardening customers, we're happy to take a turn offering the Southern Maidenhair Fern. Interplant with bold foliaged Hostas, Heucheras, Caladiums, and Rohdeas. In mid-summer hummingbirds are drawn like magnets to the multiple spikes of coral flowers that appear in profusion atop 3' plants.