Eurybia x herveyi ‘Twilight’

Description

Eurybia x herveyi ‘Twilight’ is without one of our favourite plants – one we would never do without masses of in our own garden. It’s a later summer performer, and before that it emerges in mid-spring as clumps of lush, mid-green broad-leaved foliage that quickly fills space around it. We love it because it fills out space around it without ever getting invasive (it spreads slowly by rhizomes and can be controlled easily enough by digging up clumps), because it gives the garden a feeling of lushness long before it flowers, and because when it does flower, it’s really spectacular. It looks best in clumps, because when its daisy-like flower do open the colour goes on for a long time and creates a swathe of lavender-blue in the garden that is a complete tonic in a garden that might otherwise be feeling a little tired towards late July and into August. Once the flowers are over it dies gracefully, fading to brown stems with fluffy seed heads that stand through winter and into spring.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown at our nursery in Cornwall and are provided in 2 litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of about 1 metre (40 inches) and a spread of around 50cm (20 inches) – though it will gradually spread around if it’s happy.