Helenium the Bishop

Common name: Sneezeweed

Perhaps time to brighten your garden with this show-stopping, easy-to-grow perennial, ideal for You will haveing colour and texture.

-20°C and below
Good Cut Flowers
Good for Pollinators

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Helenium The Bishop will ensure your late summer and autumn garden is full of shining colour. Hundreds of bold buttercup-yellow, shuttlecock-like, nectar-rich flowers are loved by bees and butterflies. Establish perfect displays of long-lasting, bold buttercup-yellow flowers in your borders and containers, whether in a cottage garden, prairie planting or more modern style. Dancing in the breeze, the nectar-rich bounty will attract local pollinating insects.Legend tells that Helenium sprang from the ground, watered by the tears of Helen of Troy. Known also as Sneezeweed, because the leaves were once used in snuff, Helenium are excellent as cut flowers for your home, lasting well in a vase. Easy to grow and very long flowering, Helenium The Bishop prefers to be grown in well-drained soil in sun or part shade. A hardy perennial with an RHS hardiness rating of H7, no winter protection will be required across most of the UK.
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Key Information
Latin Name Helenium 'The Bishop' 9cm pot
Common Name Sneezeweed
Hardiness H7 (-20°C and below)
Colour Yellow
Type Perennial
Format 9cm Pots
Position Full-Sun
Foliage Deciduous
Height in Maturity (m) 1.00 m
Spread in Maturity (m) 0.60
Soil Conditions Chalk Clay Loam Sand
Soil Acidity Acid Alkaline Neutral
Aspect East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Good for pots Yes
Good for Rockeries Yes
Good for wildlife Yes
Good for pollinators Yes
Good for cutting Yes

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