Rob's plants home garden plants wildlife seed photos plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook Achillea ptarmica 'The Pearl'

 

Family asteraceae Life cycle perennial (Z3-9) Flowers white (summer) Size 16" Light sun-part shade Cultural notes not fussy From seed germinate at room temperature; do not exclude light Flowers first year from seed sown indoors early. detailed seed-starting info below White button flowers, shiny foliage, spreader. Ours started flowering as seedlings under shoplights, but I kind of lost track of them after I planted them - they're in our very busy, rough-and-tumble driveway bed, where they never reach the lushly blooming mound form so proudly shown in other pictures of this plant. Instead, they pop up with some white flowers out of the jumble surrounding them. Perhaps I'll rescue them sometime...

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: driveway bed

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Achillea ptarmica 'The Pearl'

Some particularly helpful links to other websites

Kemper plant portrait

info with photo

Seed-starting details for this plant

2005. Seed from '04 trade (commercial source). Baggy 70F with light (63%G, 3-5d)

I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.

home

garden

plants

wildlife

seed

plant sale

topics

guestbook

journal

plantlinks

Last modified: July 11, 2009
Contact me