Helenium
Helensflower
Legend has it that Helenium first grew on ground watered with the tears of Helen of Troy. The backbone of the late season garden, they send out branching stems covered with red, yellow, orange and bronze daisy-like flowers that have sculpted conical centers and fringed satiny petals. In areas of high wind or heavy rain, the stout stalks may need support.
A top-performer at Mt. Cuba’s plant trials, this pollinator-friendly Karl Foerster prodigy touts merit aplenty and sunny good cheer. Copious bright canary-yellow flowers, among the best for cut creations, furnish frilly-edged horizontal petals plus deep yellow central cones that turn rusty orange in autumn and nourish the birds. Renowned for floral profusion, upright, thick-branched stalks and superior disease resistance, ′Kanaria′s clumping stand of lance-shaped greenery shuns deer, seldom needs staking and craves sunny adequately-moist abodes.
Blooms August–mid-October
Size: 3' 0" – 4' 0" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Helenium autumnale ‘Helena Gold’
- Helenium bigelovii ‘The Bishop’
- Helenium ‘Butterpat’
- Helenium ‘Chelsey’
- Helenium ‘Coppelia’
- Helenium ‘Flammendes Käthchen’
- Helenium hoopesii
- Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’
- Helenium ‘Potters Wheel’
- Helenium ‘Red Jewel’
- Helenium ‘Rotgold’
- Helenium ‘Rubinzwerg’
- Helenium ‘Sahins Early Flowerer’
- Helenium ‘Waltraut’
- Helenium ‘Zimbelstern’
