Astilbe Perennial Flower. Astilbe plants astilbes offer attractive ferny foliage and an abundance of showy flowers. Fluffy spikes on ferny foliage blooming in june and july.
Just make sure to keep astilbe moist or its delicate foliage will scorch in the sun. It s a relatively slow growing perennial that will fill in a space that you ve chosen for it nicely when given enough time. Astilbes flower clusters vary in size from 6 inches to 2 feet and their height ranges from 6 inches to 5 feet depending on the variety.
Plants display lush deeply cut green to bronze foliage that remains attractive for the entire growing season.
Also known as false spirea and false goat s beard astilbe is native to asia and north. Astilbes lend a refined grace to perennial borders. A low maintenance perennial flower with a long season of interest astilbe astilbe ssp is an easy to grow and attractive addition to any garden. Beautiful perennials for the garden the astilbes or garden spireas available to gardeners today are usually the result of hybridization and are often listed as astilbe x arendsii in garden books and nursery catalogs.
