Achillea millefolium 'PRETTY BELINDA'
Achillea millefolium 'PRETTY BELINDA'
yarrow
SIZE/TYPE |
low or groundcovering |
USUAL HEIGHT |
0.3-0.5m |
USUAL WIDTH |
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LEAVES |
deciduous broadleaf |
COLOUR OF LEAVES |
green |
FLOWERS |
showy |
COLOUR OF FLOWERS |
deep pink
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BLOOMING TIME |
June - September
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LOCATION |
full sun |
USDA zone (lowest) |
3 (down to -40°C) |
WINTER PROTECTION |
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FOR ZONE 5+6 |
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FOR ZONE 7 |
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BELONGS TO CATEGORIES |
Perennials Summer blooms
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Yarrow is a maintenance-free perennial suitable for standard flower beds as well as dry locations. Fern-like leaves are fine and deep green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Flowers come out in flat corymbs in early summer. They are bright pink with tiny yellowish-white centres. It tolerates wide range of soils except for boggy and wet. Full sun is best. Fully hardy to -40°C (USDA zone 3).
Last update 22-06-2008.
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
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