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Yarrow is a herb that is a bit neglected nowadays. In the past salad made of yarrow leaves was one of the first salads that could be harvested and so it was in high demand. Here in Swabia it is tradition to eat a salad made of herbs collected in the meadows on Maundy Thursday. Yarrow is an indispensable ingredient of this salad. There is hardly another dish that tastes as good as this first salad of the season. In the garden yarrow is happy with almost every location as long as it is sunny or at most half shaded.
`Cerise Queen` was one of the first selection of our native yarrow that was widely available. Yarrow is a very changeable plant, and on every large meadow you will find at least a few pink blooming yarrows. By crossing and selecting those pink yarrows a large variety of colourfull yarrows was created. Today yarraws come in a wide range of colours. `Cerise Queen` shows magenta flowers (with some white dots on the first days of the flower)
An old medical plant with small white flowers. Compared to the more common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) it grows less compact umbels. It flowers from July onto well into autumn. Botanists argue wheter it is a truely native plant, or if it was introduced for medical use and naturalize later. In ...
This variety is more than a hundred years old and was sold by enthusiastic horticulturists by quite a lot of names. `Boule de Neige` is its original name, but it is also known as `The Pearl` or `Snowball`. If a product is sold under so many names it got to be good, and `Boule de Neige` IS good. It looks pretty, it is sturdy, it blooms for very long time and it is excellent for cutting.
Achillea ptarmica `The Pearl` is a very good plant. It is a selection of the wild form of Sneezewort. From this selection was made another selection, resulting in `The Pearl Superior'. It more compact growing, the flowers are more double and it even comes true to name from seed. Equaly at home ...
This plant was only recently introduced from Kamchatka to the UK, from where we received seed. Its foliage differs remarkably from other yarrows: the leafs are lanceolate and serrated (slightly resembling ferns), and if touched they feel like leather. From summer until autumn the plant is covered with ...
Sadly Cupid`s Bow is somewhat out of fashion nowadays. That`s hard to understand for they are low-mainetance-plants with beautiful flowers in summer and autumn. It is a bit difficult to obtain one of the old hybrids. We were unlucky, too, for what we received under the name of `Ambroise Verschaffelt` ...
This is the variety of monkshood that is native to central Europe. It is a pretty plant with panicles of dark blue to violet flowers. Like with all monkshoods the flowers are shaped like the helmet of a knight. Flowering period is from July to August. It looks especially pretty in the shadow of ...
It is almost impossible to tell from view which is the American Sweetflag and which the Common Sweetflag. Inside there is quite a big difference: the American Sweetflag lacks all the substances that are under suspect to cause cancer. For medical or culinary purposes it is the much better choice.
The Sweetflag came from Southeast Asia as a medical plant. It is supposed that it was in the 16th century when it was cultivated for the first time in Europe in Prague. From there it has spread all over the continent and is now regarded as a nativ plant (as a `neophyt` to express it correctly). It is ...
This is a mutation of the common sweetflag. The only difference to the species is that the leaves are green and white varieged. If the plant doesn`t get enough sunlight, the variegation may fade away.
In the wild the grass-leaf Sweetflag may be found in Eastern Asia. Especially in Japan is was cultivated for centuries and there charming cultivars were developed. `Aureovariegatus` is one of them, a yellow variegated plant that grows in extrem shallow water and forms there large carpets. In Central ...
Masamune` is our smallest variety of grass-leafed Sweetflag. Nethertheless it is a very vigorous plant that can form in shallow water dense carpets of yellowish-green leaves. Like with all grass-leafed Sweetflags it is advisable to give the plant some winter protection in Central Europe.
If you look closely you will realize that `Ogon` is yellow-green variegated, but the yellow is so pale it appears from afar like white. Like all grass-leafed Sweetflags this variety need some shelter during winter in Central Europe.
This variety comes from Ireland and it bears very dark blue flowers. It is not one of the `hardy` varieties so it is better kept in a cold room during winter. Water in winter causes much more damages than frost. We keep our plant in an unheated polytunnel over winter. From Decemer to February we hardly ...
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