Kerria - bachelor's buttons

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$5.80

A cheerful spring-flowering shrub, tall and leggy, but easy to chop back each year to encourage those party-decoration pompoms to reappear. Very cold hardy and tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions, a welcome sight in southern gardens after winter cold.

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Description

Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' - bachelor's buttons

APPEARANCE : Vigorous leggy deciduous shrub with small apple green leaves and yellow pompom spring flowers resembling small roses, that appear on new growth.
USE FOR : Herbaceous borders, woodland style gardens, spring garden planting. Can sucker so site accordingly.
PLANTING : Plant in full sun to part shade. Very frost-hardy, grows in almost any soil type
CARE : Mulch and water well while tubestocks are establishing. Prune flowering stems, when flowers have finished, back to a low side shoot. On mature plants cut one-third of stems down to ground level each year. Apply a slow release fertiliser after pruning.
HEIGHT & WIDTH : 2.4 - 3 m H x 2.4 - 3 m W.
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.
You can see an example in the image gallery.
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