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MONTY’S PLANT OF THE WEEK

LIGULARIA ‘THE ROCKET’

The ligularias around my pond are coming into flower and the first is always ‘The Rocket’, its tall black stems each carrying a torch of small yellow flowers, above heartshaped leaves with serrated edges. It looks best when threaded through a border, like a dramatic wildflower in tall grass. Like all ligularias, it likes damp, rich soil and will thrive in a pond’s marginal areas. But it’s a perfectly good border plant too, as long as the soil is not too light and it’s kept out of the midday sun. It always recovers after the cool of night, though, and a good soak.

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