PULSATILLA vulgaris
Small
Sun
Purple
Well drained soil
Spring
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Description
Pulsatilla vulgaris
Height x Spread: 20cm x 20cm
Commonly known as Pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris has a clump-forming habit. Finely dissected silvery-green feathery foliage creates a clump beneath the blousy nodding blooms during early spring. The beautiful purple flowers have a vibrant yellow centre. After flowering attractive large, fluffy seed heads are produced.
Sunny conditions and a well-drained soil are best. Too much moisture is not favourable. Rockeries and gravel gardens can be given a colourful lift with these fancy flowers.
All parts of the plant are toxic.
Rosy's Colour Picks
ERODIUM 'County Park'
These are wonderful small clump forming plants that flower for a long period from late spring through summer. They are ideal for the front of the border, a gravel garden or in a pot.
ACANTHOPHYLLUM cerastioides 'Border Belle'
This cultivar of 'mouse-eared baby's breath' has large, white flowers with a pink tint and purple veins over a spreading mat of mid green spoon-like leaves.Available for Mail Order from April - August
SAXIFRAGA Southside Seedling Group
Masses of small, starry flowers with white petals, blotched red at their base, are held in clusters on arching stems above a slowly advancing mat of evergreen rosettes with light green leaves.
CAMPANULA Jenny ('Harjen')
'Jenny' is a small clump-forming perennial with green rounded/heart-shaped foliage. During summer masses of dainty white cup-shaped flowers appear with a delicate blue eye.