HELENIUM 'Baudirektor Linne'
Large
Sun
Red
Reasonable soil
Summer
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Pollinator friendly
Description
Helenium 'Baudirektor Linne'
Height x Spread: 110cm x 60cm
'Baudirektor Linne' has rich red daisy-like flowers which fade to orange during late summer. Large green lance-shaped leaves cover the upright stems. Commonly known as Sneezeweed 'Baudirektor Linne' looks wonderful planted in drifts mixing and matching the flower colour with other Heleniums.
Deadhead to prolong the flowering period over the summer. Choose a sunny situation with a humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil where these plants will thrive.
Rosy's Colour Picks
LYSIMACHIA barystachys
During summer Lysimachia barystachys produces spikes of small starry white flowers. As autumn approaches the lance-shaped green foliage takes on a gorgeous yellow/orange hue.
HEMEROCALLIS 'Frans Hals'
Hemerocallis are commonly known as Daylily, each flower lasting just one day. 'Frans Hals's' sumptuous blooms are separated into a layer of inner and outer petals, the outer petals are a creamy yellow
LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum 'Christine Hagemann'
'Christine Hagemann' has rather gorgeous anemone-centred, white daisy flowers during summer. Narrow deep green leaves with a slightly toothed margin are held alternately on the flowering stems.
HELENIUM 'Vicky'
'Vicky' is possibly the first picotee flower in a Helenium. In midsummer on erect stems, red flowers with yellow edges appear over green linear foliage. 'Vicky' is an upright perennial which bulks up