Description

Sanguisorba hakusanensis ‘Lilac Squirrel’

Family: Rosaceae

Common names: Korean Burnet
Synonym: Sanguisorba obtusa ‘Lilac Squirrel’

Supplied as bare root perennial. You will receive enough root for at least 3 plants.

As featured on Gardener’s World, a Carol Klein favourite.

Long, hanging, lilac-pink bottlebrush flowers, from midsummer to autumn

Easy for beginners – very tolerant and hard to kill!

Sanguisorba hakusanensis, or lilac squirrel, is a hardy perennial Japanese native. The species name means “coming from Haku”, a mountain in Japan. It has very graceful, long lasting pink-lavender, soft, fuzzy arching “plumes” like squirrel tails. The seed heads are also attractive. Forms clumps of attractive blue-green foliage with heavily scalloped leaves.

This flowering plant grows to about 30 inches tall when in flower and prefers full sun to partial shade in moist, well-drained soil.

I have found this an extremely tough and tolerant plant that will grow in both very damp and very dry soil.

Position: Full Sun, Partial Shade
Soil: moist but well-drained
Height: 1-1.5 metres
Flowers: June, July, August.