Heleniums flowers

Heleniums are a marvellous flower which add vivid late summer colour to your garden. Their lovely rich yellows or deep orange shades will go very well with the flower heads of grasses or the yellows of Rudbeckias. During the late summer autumn period they blend harmoniously with the autumn colours of surrounding leaves and berries. They also make great cut flowers.

Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’ is perhaps the most well known cultivar and has a lovely reddish orange petals which fall back from the brown central cone.

Heleniums are very easy to grow apart from one thing- slugs love them. So protect them well when they are young. Once they have formed a clump they appear to be fairly safe and come up reliably year after year.

Plant in a sunny position. Not too fussy about soil type.

They are very easy plants to propagate. Dig up an established clump and tear it into as many parts as you can. Replant each section and add some well rotted compost. It is best to divide Heleniums in spring when the clump has started growing after winter dormancy but before flower stems begin to appear. Do not divide in winter as small plants tend to die in the winter.

Alternatively take stem cuttings in the spring. Results are best if the cuttings are placed in a propagator. The cuttings root very quickly.

Heleniums can also be propagated by seed. Sow in spring and the new plants could flower in the same year. Of course they will not necessarily be the same colour as the parent.

Like asters Helenium plants can be cut down in size in May. This restricts their height making them less likely to fall down and delays flowering and so if you have lots of clumps this could be used as a method to prolong the flowering season.

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