Meadowsweet Pink | Slide Mouse
It reminds me somewhat of an old variety called filipendula digitata nana no longer a valid name this variety is compact with soft pink flowerheads more appropriate for a smaller garden.
Meadowsweet pink. Meadowsweet has also been referred to as queen of the meadow pride of the meadow meadow wort meadow queen lady of. Filipendula pink dreamland appears to be a european cultivar not generally offered here. The compound leaves are a reddish green. Although the fluffy flower stalks look delicate queen of the prairie is a tall sturdy perennial that will stand up to wind and a variety of.
Though filipendula is a member of the rose family the flowerheads will remind you a little of astilbes with the same loose fluffy quality. Venusta has plumes of rosy pink flowers on 6 stems. Its slender branchy red stems produce a frothy mass of small pink double flowers that fade to paler pink in late summer. It has been introduced and naturalised in north america.
In midsummer cloudlike clusters of pink or white blooms rise above the ferny toothed leaves of this north america native. Filipendula rubra is a perennial in zones 3 8. Filipendula ulmaria commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort is a perennial herb in the family rosaceae that grows in damp meadows it is native throughout most of europe and western asia near east and middle east. The rubra species which generally boasts pink or pink purple flowers can rise to eight feet tall and four feet wide with plume like flowerheads composed of hundreds of tiny blooms.
These grow between 4 and 8 and are pink. They bloom from early to mid summer and require full sun or mostly sun and well drained moist soil that is slightly acidic.