Sanguisorba ‘Blackthorn’

Description

Think pink and puffy for your prairie planting scheme or mixed border. Sanguisorba ‘Blackthorn’ will bring rosy colour, height, structure, movement and pollinators to your garden to help achieve a gorgeously informal late-summer wilderness. Solid poker-shaped flowerheads emerge a deep claret-red colour before bursting out the fluffy pink flowers which form a light-catching aura. This means you get two great looks all in one plant! The show is long-lasting, low-maintenance and incredibly beautiful.

Sanguisorba ‘Blackthorn’ is quite a tall plant and will be happiest in a border where is has room grow. Thriving in a sunny location with free-draining soil, once it’s settled in its quite tolerant to dry conditions and copes well with heat. This clump-forming perennial will need a bit of time to reach full size but each year it will grow back bushier, taller and more prolific. Try pairing this burnet with other sun-loving perennials like Rudbeckia, Echinacea or Salvia to create a balmy summer combination.