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Beginner
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1m
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1.2m
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2-5 years
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1 hour care
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Botanical name: Filipendula ulmaria
Other names: Bridewort, Pride of the meadow, Lady of the meadow, Meadow queen, Mountain spirea, Meadow-wort, Meadowsweet
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Genus: Filipendula
Species: F. ulmaria - F. ulmaria is an upright, herbaceous perennial with deep green, pinnate, divided leaves and fluffy, white flower heads in summer until early autumn.
Filipendula ulmaria is: Deciduous
Flower: White in Summer; White in Autumn
Foliage: Bright-green in Spring; Mid-green in Summer; Mid-green in Autumn
Habit: Clump-forming, Upright
Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet ) will reach a height of 1.2m and a spread of 1m after 2-5 years.
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Suggested uses: Architectural, Beds and borders, Bees (attract & feed bees), City, Cottage/Informal, Low Maintenance, Waterside
Cultivation: Plant in moist, fertile, humus-rich soils in full sun or light shade. A useful plant for areas of poor drainage.
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Clay, Loamy |
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Moist but well-drained, Moisture-retentive |
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Acid, Alkaline, Neutral |
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Partial Shade, Full Sun |
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North, South, East, West |
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Exposed, Sheltered |
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| Hardiness: |
Hardy (H4) |
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Comment from
Miriam Mesa-Villalba
In summer, it has a wonderful mass of creamy-white fragrant flowers arranged in dense, foamy clusters above the leaves. The oval, ridged seeds smell rather less pleasant and this has earned it an alternative colloquial - and a little cyncial - name of 'courtship and matrimony'. Other common and older English names for this plant include meadsweet and meadwort. These suggest that the flowers of this plant were once used to flavour alcoholic drinks.
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