 Tanacetum haradjanii
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- common names: silverlace tansy
- flowering season: summer
- height: 6 inches, growing wider
- Light requirements: sun
- Soil requirements: average
- Water requirments: average to low
- Growth habit: a low clump
- How to propagate: cuttings or dividing
- Leaf type: gray and feathery
- Ways to use it: the light silvery leaves will brighten any sunny garden and look especially good with stonework
- Special characteristics: tends to be evergreen where winters are mild
- Other points of interests: originally from Syria, it can take hot and dry summer conditions, but be sure to water it regularly while it is young
Deeply cut, feathery leaves of silvery white are stunning on this perennial. It provides contrast to the green of other plants. We rarely see flowers although it is written that it has sporadic, small yellow flowers in summer. This as with so many gray leaved plants such as lavender, benefits from being given a top-dressing or mulch of coarse sand or small stones, that provides the double service of reflecting the sun's heat back onto the plant and helping provide good drainage. Winter hardy to USDA Zone 6. Mature height will be six inches with a width of twelve inches, in a couple of years. Another, older name for it that you might run across is Chrysanthemum haradjanii. |
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