Strong Spires. No Staking. No Fuss - The Late Summer Lift Your Garden Needs

Often, our gardens look fine in June, then lose energy by mid-July. You as a gardener are no doubt aware of this. Your early flowers fade and your later flowering plants have not yet budded, or maybe you notice a patch near the path showing bare soil for a few weeks.

Liatris with its quiet strength is the answer to these familiar gardening issues.

Liatris corms look misshapen, unusual and nondescript in your hand, yet they pack a punch like no other. Hard to imagine tall spires rising from such modest shapes. Press each one into free draining soil, roots down, tip up. Add grit on heavy clay. Choose full sun. Then leave them be. The results will astound you,

This offer is for THIRTY top sized corms 14/+ cms of Liatris (15 x Floristan Alba  & 15 x Spicata). Retail price for these top-quality corms normally £26.80 with postage. Your price WHILST STOCKS LAST is £14.70 and FREE delivery.

5 x Liatris ‘Floristan Alba’ 

Stands like a row of white tapers held above green blades. Each stem carries a soft, feathery glow which cools hot borders and sharpens deeper colours nearby. In evening light, spires seem almost silver, giving late summer gardens a calm, upright presence without noise or excess.

15 x Liatris spicata

Brings bold vertical rhythm to open ground, sending up firm green stems which rise clean through surrounding planting. Dense violet flower spikes draw constant movement from bees and passing butterflies. Clumps thicken with each season, building a stronger display, while narrow foliage keeps a crisp outline at soil level.

Once planted, Spring brings slim green shoots, straight as pencils with no flopping leaves. By high summer, the stems carry tight buds from base to tip. Then colour begins at the top and travels downward day by day. The flowers open in slow order, turning each stem into a living ‘brush’.

Bees are attracted. Butterflies hover. Your borders gain height without bulk. Grass like foliage keeps neat form at ground level, so your roses, echinacea, and lavender sit comfortably beside your liatris.

Perhaps tall perennials have let you down before. Rain bends the stems. Wind  breaks them. Your liatris stands firm through any passing summer storms. No staking. No constant checking. Just upright spires holding their shape whilst other plants succumb.

Year after year, clumps grow broader. More stems rise. A single planting becomes a loose drift, natural yet controlled. In our British soils, winter causes little trouble if your liatris roots have drainage.

Plant once this Spring. By July, a sweep of colour hums with life and vitality. Simple corms. Sophisticated return. A border elevated to new heights this summer.

de Jager liatris large corms bring upright colour, yearly returns, and a border alive with bees, butterflies and beauty.

Delivery late-March ready for planting.