Achillea 'Terracotta'

Achillea ‘Terracotta’ produces handsome, flat umbels (to 10cm) of flowers over soft, silver foliage. The blooms are on show for around four months from early summer into autumn and are fantastic in a vase. Left in the garden, the flat flowers create a nice layer of colour and can remain upstanding into winter.

Achillea ‘Terracotta’ changes colour throughout its flowering season. The impressive flower heads open coral pink, then mature through terracotta and finally take on straw tones. You can have a range of gorgeous colours at any one time – and for a long time as the blooms last and last.

Achillea are great garden plants. They are sun loving, produce plenty of flowers and don’t need a lot of fuss. They love the heat and don’t mind a bit of dry. Poor soils aren’t a problem for them and the flowers are terrific cut and or dried. If you leave the blooms on the plant they will slowly fade to bronze and can remain upstanding and decorative through winter.

Try Achillea in gardens, rock gardens, meadow plantings or pots. The flowers will even attract plenty of beneficial insects to the garden.

They are an excellent partner plant for spring flowering bulbs as they emerges just as the tulips and daffodils are receding, then the Achillea will go on to shade the garden in summer whilst the bulbs are dormant.

Plant Achillea in a sunny spot, with well drained soil. Water in, then additional watering is only required if rainfall is low. What is especially exciting for me is that they are rabbit resistant, which gives me one less plant to worry about! You can choose to cut the first round of flowers off for a second showing late summer/autumn.

Achillea is commonly known as Sneezewort or Yarrow. The botanical name, Achillea is named for the Greek mythological hero who found healing qualities in plants.