2022年7月12日 · If you like fuss-free tough plants that flower for months, there are so many persicaria varieties that should be on your shopping list. Also known as knotweed and bistort, they produce airy tapers of crimson, raspberry, pastel pink, or ivory flowers, adding color and informal style to borders and providing bees with nectar.

2022年10月11日 · Go back a decade or so, and the persicaria you were more likely to find were those grown for their colourful foliage: cultivars like ‘Painter’s Palette’, for example, with its cream, green and red-splashed leaves, or ‘Red Dragon’, with its arrowhead leaves of purple.

Persicaria odorata, commonly known as Vietnamese coriander or Vietnamese mint, is an herbaceous tender perennial of the knotweed family that typically grows to 6-18” tall. It is native to Southeast Asia. Leaves are used extensively in Vietnamese cooking to …

Dividing/Transplanting: Divide large clumps in spring; plant crowns at soil level. End-of-Season Care: Cut down and remove top growth. After the ground freezes, protect plants during their first winter with a 4-6in layer of oak leaves, pine boughs, or straw.

Leaves and stems: Leaves are alternate and widely spaced, lance-like or lance-oblong, 1 to 4 inches long to 1 inch wide, with a slightly rounded taper to the tip and deeply lobed at the base, the lobes pointed and directed downward.

All are carried on slender stems with some small leaf that emerge from relatively large, oval leaves that are usually mid-green and often turn lovely tints of red in autumn. While the majority of varieties bloom from July to October, Persicaria bistorta flowers in late spring.

Persicaria and its near relations contain a broad variety of versatile garden plants, from vibrant, flowering dynamos and statuesque landscape plants to denizens of shady corners with …

Persicaria polymorpha is a shrubby, clump-forming perennial featuring plumes (panacled racemes) of creamy white flowers reminiscent of goat's beard (Aruncus dioecus) which bloom throughout the summer atop leafy stems typically rising 3-5' (less frequently to 6') tall. Lance-shaped dark green leaves.

‘Painter’s Palette’ is grown primarily for its attractive, variegated foliage. It typically forms a spreading foliage mound 18-24” tall and as wide. Broad, oval, medium green leaves (to 10” long) are marbled and splashed with creamy white, yellow and a touch of pink, with each leaf having a large central chocolate-red chevron.

Persicaria loves full sun, needing at least six hours a day. But in very hot places, some shade helps to stop leaves from burning. Soil type matters too. Persicaria does well in soil that drains well and is rich in nutrients. Don’t plant them in heavy clay or wet areas.