Bright-red stalks and red-pink flowers! Rodgersia is a robust, herbaceous perennial growing to 90 cm tall. The star-shaped flowers, are borne in summer. Though it grows quite well in somewhat dry soils if provided some shade, R. Pinnata is useful as an ornamental ground-cover plant for the margins of streams or ponds. The plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society-s Award of Garden Merit.

Type: Hardy perennial

Hardiness zones: 5-8

Height: 36", 90cm

Location: Part shade if dry soil, sun if moist soil

Seeds per packet: 25