Lythrum salicaria 'Lady Sackville'

Family - Lythraceae
Category - Perennial
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H7
Height - 90cm
Width - 45cm
Location - The Cool Garden

Description: A herbaceous Perennial with a clump-forming, upright habit. Mid-green, willow-like leaves are lanceolate in shape. Many small, star-shaped flowers are a bright shade of magenta-pink and held in dense, vertical spikes. The Blooms are produced from midsummer into early autumn and are attractive to pollinating insects. Good for use as cut flowers.

Flower:

Star-shaped flowers are a bright shade of magenta-pink and held in dense spikes. The flowers are produced from July into September.

Flower colour: Pink

Flower shape: Star-shaped flowers in spikes

Flowering time: July, August, September

Foliage:

Mid-green leaves are lanceolate in shape. The leaves are held in opposite pairs on the vertical stems. The willow-like appearance of the foliage makes this plant very easily confused with the common weed, Willow Herb, when the leaves first emerge in spring.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Lanceolate

Propagation:

Cuttings, division.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun in fertile, moisture retentive soil.