Description

Filipendula rubra ‘Venusta’

(Pink Meadowsweet, Queen of the Prairie)

Synonyms: Filipendula magnifica, Filipendula rubra ‘Magnifica’

Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (AGM)

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

This beautiful pink form of herbaceous perennial Meadowsweet will grow in drier places than the wild white one.

It has lovely, fluffy “cotton candy” deep pink, scented flower heads from July to August.

Twice as tall as common meadowsweet (up to 5 feet+) it spreads by underground rhizomes into a good clump, though not too invasively if kept fairly dry.

It is also very good in boggy places.

The leaves are a lovely red-edged fern shape on stiff stems before the flowers in summer. Can have a second flush of flowers if first are cut off.

Very attractive to butterflies, bees and insects.

Good for prairie-style planting with grasses, at woodland edges, back of borders, cottage gardens, wild gardens, or for pond edges or bog gardens.

Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Soil: Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained, or poorly drained (boggy)
Height: 1.5 to 2.5 metres
Spread: 0.5 to 1 metres
Flowers: July, August