Gillenia trifoliata - 9cm pot
A rarely available beauty that takes ages to get to a saleable size, so I'm quite pleased to be able to offer a few of them now. I absolutely love this plant - it has a fabulous combination of textured green leaves (each one divided into three as the name suggests) which contrast beautifully with the dark reddish stems. Then the flowers appear from the bronzed-red buds in summer - beautiful pure white stars with long narrow petals that slowly reflex slightly as they age. I find it is best if grown in light afternoon shade, but it still grows quite happily in full sun, it just tends to die back more quickly in the autumn. Fully winter dormant and very hardy. Overseas this plant seems to reach quite large proportions at around 1 metre, but here it has so far barely made 60cm. 9cm pot.