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Achillea questions

WildlifeloverWildlifelover Posts: 380
edited June 2022 in Plants
Evening,

I bought this Achillea from a local shop last year and it is doing very well. It didn’t have a label unfortunately so I’m wondering if anyone may have an idea as to which it is? It’s about a foot high and slightly less wide. 

The second question is there is quite a bit of dead foliage low down, is this normal for achillea (the one I see in the wild is often like this)?

 Many thanks. 


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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    It's possibly "Cerise Queen". 
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    I wondered if there are any good dwarf achillea out there. I hear the group has the tendancy to flop. I am looking for something about 30cm Thanks 
  • KmehKmeh Posts: 173
    I am having the flopping problem with my Achillea millefoliums. They are staked albeit probably later than I should have.

    Would love to know how you make them present well in the border. 

    Not sure about your achillea @Wildlifelover - but mine are millifolium and they seem closer to 60 cm in height within a year.
  • Alfie_Alfie_ Posts: 456
    edited July 2023
    @Wildlifelover the only two I have seen of that colour are Cerise Queen and Lilac Beauty, both of which are larger than a foot. I have lilac beauty and that gets to 80cm. Yours looks more like CQ in terms fo colour though I would say. 

    I get that brown foliage and just pull it off when I see it. It is quite a dense plant lower down so there won't be much airflow. 

    @Kmeh yes I get the flopping of some stems on almost all of mine. It's funny how it does that as it happens even on my most healthy ones and even the flopped stems are healthy and flowering too. Staking definitely helps. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    There are a few alpine varieties of Achilleas which are shorter, so won’t flop.
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  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    thanks
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I have to tie one of mine too, or it falls all over the penstemon. I have wild ones which also grow bendy, and some that don't. 🤷‍♀️
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They tend to grow a bit bigger in richer soil, so staking is needed, or shrubby, woodier planting to help support them.

    I have a newer one [2 - 3 years old now] that's planted in the gravel at the end of a little group of plants. Rubbish, gravelly clay/sand underneath the gravel as it had been paved before, and there was only a small amount of soil when I converted it to grass. I changed it back a few years ago. 
    I use a large branch from a nearby tree as decoration there, as the area is relatively newly done, and it happily scrambles around and over it. It's never been fed or watered since initially planted. 


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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