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Persicaria bistorta \u2018Superba\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (AGM)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Supplied as bare root rhizomes.\u00a0<\/strong>You will receive enough roots for several plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fast growing summer flowering herbaceous semi-evergreen\u00a0hardy perennial plant suitable for border planting.<\/p>\n

Gets up to between 50 and 100cm here.<\/p>\n

Lovely large bottlebrush-like spikes of mauve\/pink flowers with attractive clumps of green foliage.<\/p>\n

Bees and other insects absolutely love it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

All round tough plant suitable for problem areas;\u00a0<\/strong>good for low maintenance or woodland planting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It will quickly form dense clumps of handsome foliage\u00a0so is perfect for providing groundcover in sun or partial shade.<\/p>\n

Also suitable for container growing.<\/p>\n

Likes moist, fertile soil but will also tolerate permanently wet soil,\u00a0cold exposed locations and heavy clay soils.<\/p>\n

Good for a bog garden or beside a pond.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, this variety of bistort is also more tolerant of drier soils.<\/p>\n

This plant flourishes in my garden, which has awful soil where it is currently growing,\u00a0<\/strong>and also gets flooded in winter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It has a very long flowering period (from June to October) and usually flowers twice a year here, from spring into summer and again in late summer\/autumn, especially if dead-headed.<\/p>\n

Can be lifted and divided in spring or autumn.<\/p>\n

Extremely easy to grow and an all round \u201cgood do-er\u201d.<\/p>\n

You might find some of the other names it can be known by quite interesting:<\/p>\n

Polygonum, Adderwort, Dragonwort, Easter giant, Easter ledger, Easter ledges,\u00a0Easter magiant, Easter man-giant, Gentle dock, Great bistort, Osterick,\u00a0Oysterloit, Passion dock, Patience dock, Patient dock, Pink pokers,\u00a0Pudding grass, Pudding dock, Red legs, Snakeweed, Twice-writhen, Water ledges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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