Persicaria amplexicaulis Early Pink Lady

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Early Pink Lady' is a variety with a beautiful stature and a generous flowering in shades of pink to old rose. This lovely perennial blooms from early to late summer and its foliage turns bronze at the end of the season.It is a very hardy, robust plant that thrives in any rich and moist soil. You can plant it in full sun or partial shade in flower beds or near water features.

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Early Pink Lady' is a plant from the Polygonaceae family. It is usually deciduous in winter, depending on the climate, and quickly forms a clump of 1.10m (4ft) high in flower (about 70cm (28in) for the foliage). This plant spreads quickly or slowly, depending on the soil fertility, and can form imposing clumps. This very floriferous knotweed produces numerous spikes of 10 to 15cm (4 to 6in) long at the axil of the leaves at the end of the stems. They are composed of small flowers that are initially very dark pink in bud and turn old rose as they bloom. Flowering is continuous throughout summer, from June to September, as long as the soil does not dry out too much. The dark green leaves are lanceolate to cordate, from 15 to 25cm (6 to 10in) long and hairy on the underside, carried on sturdy stems, they turn bronze in autumn.

This beautiful 'Early Pink Lady' persicaria suits contemporary-style gardens, as well as more wild or rustic areas. It creates stunning summer-to-autumn scenes when combined with ornamental grasses. Thanks to its spreading growth habit, it can be used as a ground cover where there is space. This plant enjoys full sun, but also partial shade. It thrives in rich and heavy, moist or even very wet soils, and can be grown on sunny pond banks or in a moist and partially shaded woodland at the base of trees where it pairs well with bugbanes, giant hostas, or Japanese anemones.