'Black Stockings' really stands out from the crowd with clouds of deep lavender-purple starry flowers held high in midsummer on blackberry colour stems above billowing green aquilegia-like foliage.
Sprays of gorgeous clear white flowers appear from small spherical buds, during summer. Bright green, pinnate, rounded foliage is carried on tall stems.
'Elin' is a very handsome hybrid, created from a cross between Thalictrum rochebrunianum and Thalictrum flavum glaucum. This sterile perennial has sprays of purple lilac flowers during mid-late summer
This delicate looking herbaceous perennial has fine, dark stems and grey/green leaves. From May to July, it produces large clusters of white fluffy flowers from lilac buds and is a magnet for bees.
Thalictrum is commonly known as Meadow Rue. This plant has delightful blue-green Aquilegia-like foliage beneath the delicate green-yellow inflorescences which appear in early summer.
Thalictrum kiusianum creates a low mound of fern-like foliage above which gorgeous flurries of pale pink to purple, frothy flowers appear during late spring and early summer.
Thalictrum lucidum is commonly known as Shining Meadow Rue. Green/yellow fluffy inflorescences appear during the summer. Divided leaflets are blue-green and lance-shaped.