Astilbe ‘Moccachino’

Description

Chocolate and froth is enticing indeed, Astilbe ‘Moccachino’ mimics a comforting mocha-filled mug in fabulous plant form! With this false goat’s beard, you can add a chocolatey tone to your planting schemes, bringing light, height and texture to the shadier, damper areas of the garden. It’s a real treat of a garden plant through the season with truly gorgeous ferny leaves brushed with tints of copper and cocoa-brown between spring and autumn every year. In summer, when it sends up reddish stems topped with fluffy plumes of creamy-white flowers, Astilbe ‘Moccachino’ is breath-taking. Unlike most Astilbes that hold their flowers up fairly upright, this one arches its blooms gracefully over an attractive clump of bushy foliage.
A useful and impressive perennial for partly shaded, moist sites, Astilbe ‘Moccachino’ looks lovely massed together to form a ferny, lush and colourful display. Try this as an original choice for a pondside area, or combine it with ferns, purple and bronze-toned heuchera, or something starry and contrasting like Astrantia. Its good looks luckily come without fuss: Astilbe ‘Moccachino’ is robust, resistant to slugs, generally untroubled by diseases and generally an easy-going, low-maintenance plant. Enjoy the return of this perennial every year, give it time to reach full size – they grow back from a bigger clump every year and eventually form a highly prolific clump.