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Helenium Fiesta

Helenium Fiesta
Sneezeweed, Helen's flower, Dogtooth daisy

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Recent variety, offering flowers resembling semi-double daisies with burgundy-blue petals widely marginated with golden yellow. The colour is complex and warm, and the well-flowering and ramified young plant forms imposing masses, very floriferous at the end of summer. Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Flower size
5 cm
Height at maturity
1.20 m
Spread at maturity
1 m
Exposure
Sun
Hardiness
Hardy down to -29°C
Soil moisture
Moist soil
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Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, September to November
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Flowering time August to October
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Description

Helenium 'Fiesta' is a recent variety of Helenium, remarkable for its colour and abundance of its daisy-like semi-double flowers, with round petals of a complex burgundy-blue hue, widely marginated with gold and orange. The well-branched plant forms a bushy mass and is fully blooming, in a warm shade that is welcome at the end of summer and early autumn. Stunning alongside the blue stars of asters, this perennial perennial certified by the Royal Horticultural Society will find its place in the background of sunny beds, in fresh, preferably limestone soil.

 

Heleniums are perennials native to North America, where they are usually found on the edge of swamps. The 'Fiesta' cultivar has a very rich colour and vigorous growth, even if it is rather slow-growing. It has a bushy habit with stems reaching 1.20m (4ft) in height. The leaves, coloured a bright green, are lanceolate in shape with smooth margins and are arranged alternately along the stems. During the months from August to October, a myriad of flowers appear at the top of the stems. The heads resemble semi-double daisies, measuring 4 to 5cm (2in) in diameter; in the centre, the cone is brown in colour and gradually gives way to yellow-orange stamens that form a concentric circle. At the periphery, broad and slightly crumpled florets, coloured dark red with grey-blue reflections, show a 5mm (0in) wide yellow-orange border. The warm tones of this almost unreasonable flowering herald the beginning of autumn flowers and foliage with fanfare.

 

The 'Fiesta' Helenium is a robust and hardy plant that is never sick. It appreciates ordinary, rather moist soils and sunny exposures. It is easy to grow, and it blooms equally well on slopes, in beds, and in containers on the terrace. Despite all these qualities, Heleniums remain rare in gardens. Perhaps because their warm tones announce autumn a little too quickly, while the garden and the gardener are still trying to hold onto the last summer blooms; yet they are the perfect complement to asters. 'Fiesta', in combination with Rudbeckias, pairs very well with autumn plants like Heucheras and Helianthus, but it can also be associated with a deciduous Euonymus, whose foliage ignites at the first cold, or with the sumptuous Dyer's madder. In a different setting, the felty foliage of Stachys or Salvia greatly enhances the warm shade of this flowering.

 

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Helenium Fiesta (Foliage) Foliage

Flowering

Flower colour red
Flowering time August to October
Inflorescence Flower head
Flower size 5 cm
Bee-friendly Attracts pollinators
Good for cut flowers Cut flower blooms
Flowering description Dark red with grey-blue reflections with a wide yellow-orange border.

Foliage

Foliage persistence Deciduous
Foliage colour dark green
Foliage description Deciduous.

Plant habit

Height at maturity 1.20 m
Spread at maturity 1 m
Growth rate normal

Botanical data

Genus

Helenium

Cultivar

Fiesta

Family

Asteraceae

Other common names

Sneezeweed, Helen's flower, Dogtooth daisy

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

Product reference73131

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Planting and care

Plant Heleniums in ordinary soil as long as it is well-drained by adding planting compost and/or well-rotted compost. Choose a sunny exposure for it. Water regularly after planting, then once established, only water in case of prolonged drought. This particularly tall variety will need staking. Cut back the plant once the stems have turned black. Every 2 to 3 years, you can divide the clump in spring or autumn to regenerate the plant and give it vigour.

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Planting period

Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, September to November

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow
Type of use Border
Hardiness Hardy down to -29°C (USDA zone 5) Show map
Ease of cultivation Beginner
Planting density 3 per m2
Exposure Sun
Soil pH Neutral, Calcareous
Soil type Clayey-chalky (heavy and alkaline), Silty-loamy (rich and light)
Soil moisture Moist soil, Rich and well-drained

Care

Pruning instructions Cut the faded stems flush with the ground at the end of winter.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time March to April
Disease resistance Very good
Overwinter Can be left in the ground

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