Description
Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican Fleabane) is a fabulous, easy to grow and trouble-free performer that no garden should be without. It is enjoying very much a ‘plant of the moment’ period, and for good reasons. From mid-spring onwards its flowers appear as small white daisy-like flowers that age to pink, giving the whole plant a mixture of flowers in varying shades of white and pink at any one time.
The flowers continue through the whole growing season right up until the frosts and sometimes even beyond in the absence of hard frosts, in our experience. The foliage is low-growing and it spreads beautifully, seeking out gaps and cracks that make it wonderful for knitting plants together at the front of a herbaceous border or cottage garden and even better in graveled areas or even growing vertically down walls. They also work great in containers, and are pretty much bomb-proof as long as they get some water in very dry spells.
These established, garden-ready plants have been grown at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in 2 litre containers. They will flower from May until the first frosts.
Growing Advice
Erigeron karvinskianus, as its common name reveals, are plants of Mexican origin and as such like as much sun as you can give them. Though they will grow in most soil types, they prefer neutral soil with good drainage – if you can give them this and a sunny spot they’ll reward you with masses of flowers that just keep coming. Though fully winter hardy in my experience, in early spring you may want to cut the plant back a little to tidy it up after winter, which will often serve the double-purpose of waking the plant up. It doesn’t need lots of feeding, and will do equally as well in poor soil.
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