PLANT - HELENIUM: RED

Add glorious late-season color to your landscape with helenium, a sun-loving perennial that delivers long-lasting floral displays each year from mid to late summer through fall. Use it in borders, cottage gardens, and naturalized areas. Native to both North America and Europe, this sun-loving plant is sometimes called sneezeweed (because it was once used for making snuff). Not to worry, allergy sufferers, helenium won’t make you sneeze, but it does bloom about the same time as wild ragweed, a major source of hay-fever-inducing pollen. Helenium is also a fantastic pollinator plant, drawing all kinds of butterflies and bees. Many of the best cultivars are hybrids, and all are excellent for cutting.

With such an extensive bloom time, few other perennials can rival what blanket flower brings to the garden. On top of their visual appeal, the bright, cheery blossoms of blanket flower are a wonderful food source for pollinators. Great for containers! Excellent cut flowers.

PRO TIP: Keep soil moist. Dead head flowers for longer season. Excellent cut flowers.

LOCATION: FULL SUN
MATURES: 75-90 DAYS
PLANT SZE: 1' to 3' FEET
PLANT SPACING: ~12" - 18" INCHES

CONTAINER: 3.25" SQUARE

NOTE: CAN NOT SHIP -- PICK UP OR DELIVERY ONLY
>> planted February 14, 2021.