SILPHIUM perfoliatum 'J. S. Maya'
Medium
Sun
Yellow
Reasonable soil
Well drained soil
Summer
Pollinator friendly
Description
Silphium perfoliatum 'J. S. Maya'
Height x Spread: 80cm x 45cm
While the profusion of sunny slightly informal yellow daisy flowers that 'J. S. Maya' produces will remind you of the naturally occurring Silphium perfoliatum, its size will not. Bred to be smaller and better suited to a garden situation than its giant 2.5m high relative, its late summer flowering season is perfect for bridging the 'August slump', adding much needed colour before the autumn flowering perennials get going.
Its foliage is interesting too being large, coarse and blue-green in hue, it makes a good foil to display other plants against before the main floral event starts. Thriving in full sun and free draining soil, its naturalistic good looks combine well with ornamental grasses plus Achillea, Cota tinctoria and Salvia for a prairie style planting scheme. Great for a wildlife garden too as pollinators love it.
Rosy's Colour Picks
ACHILLEA 'Terracotta'
Dense clusters of terracotta orange flowers which gently fade to cream, are carried high above finely cut mid green foliage.
STIPA gigantea
'Giant Golden Oat Grass' forms clumps of arching, narrow green foliage, below a fountain of slender stems with oat-like greenish-purple flowers that shimmer in the breeze. Flowering during the summer,
COTA tinctoria 'Sauce Hollandaise'
The flowers of this plant are a very soft creamy yellow with a darker ring at the centre, which attracts bees to the pollen.
SALVIA 'Blue Spire'
Salvia is commonly known as Russian Sage, and 'Blue Spire' is a bushy deciduous sub-shrub. During late summer small blue tubular flowers cover gorgeous upright white stems, which bear divided grey-