Grows 18" - 24" h x 18" - 24" sp
With deep red blooms and dark green leaves, this Astilbe could be an excellent backdrop flower for your dappled shade garden. Long-lasting flowers can be used for cut or dried arrangements. Soils for Astilbes should be evenly moist and never dry out. Adding compost to make the soil more humusy and rich along with mulch will help your Astilbe produce full flower clusters with hundreds of densely packed flowers that can be left to produce dried seed heads. Astilbe attracts butterflies and is deer and rabbit resistant.
Grows 2' h x 18" - 20" sp
*** COMING SOON *** Astilbe, with its graceful, fern-like foliage is a great addition to a part-sun to part-shade garden. A hybrid Astilbe, ‘Sprite’ is great for containers or the front of a border with its shell-pink plumes. Soils for Astilbes should be evenly moist and never dry out. Adding compost to make the soil more humusy and rich along with mulch will help your Astilbe produce full flower clusters with hundreds of densely-packed flowers that can be left to produce dried seed heads. Astilbe attracts butterflies and is perfect for a dappled light garden.
Grows 18" - 24" h x 18" - 24" sp
Bright white flowers adorn the feathery, light green leaves of this shade and dappled sun perennial. Long-lasting flowers can be used for cut or dried arrangements. Soils for Astilbes should be evenly moist and never dry out. Adding compost to make the soil more humusy and rich along with mulch will help your Astilbe produce full flower clusters with hundreds of densely packed flowers that can be left to produce dried seed heads. Astilbe attracts butterflies and is deer and rabbit-resistant.
Grows 12" - 24" ht. x 12" - 24" sp.
Younique Silvery Pink Astilbe (also called False Goat's Beard), is a quick-growing and showy perennial for beautiful summer color in shady areas. Fragrant and feathery, it quickly grows to form a nice mound of densely packed spires of bright pink plumes that rise above foliage. Adds a light, airy quality to a border or in mass plantings in early to mid-summer.
Photo Credit: Creek Hill Nursery; National Gardening Association