Aruncus sylvestris | Goats Beard plant Alstroemerias flower for many weeks

Alstroemerias flower for many weeks from early summer until autumn and plants can produce up to eighty flowering stems per year so are extremely popular in our cutting garden as well as with our Flower Farmer friends

this stately evergreen perennial bears 1 metre stems with whorls of pale hooded yellow that can flower from late spring right through until early autumn

Hardy to cold temperatures and will cope with frost and snow

but you would need a cool summer and adequate moisture - we mulch our plants to retain moisture

It is easy to grow and looks at home in garden beds

Aruncus sylvestris | Goats Beard plant Alstroemerias flower for many weeksAlso known as Aruncus dioicus or Goats Beard this lovely plant has plumes of creamy white tiny starlike flowers resembling an Astilbe but it is considerably taller is stature. Aruncus is an attractive perennial with mounds of fernlike leaves so there is a big show from early summer right through until autumn when it loses it leaves and becomes dormant until spring. This clump forming perennial grows quite slowly up to around 1. 2 to 1. 8m in height