Tall Meadow Yarrow
Yarrow Achillea filipendulin and grows up to 100-150 cm, has a bushy habit, stiff, straight and unbranched shoots.Yellow (in varieties of various shades) flowers are gathered in large, flat and dense inflorescences.Plants bloom from mid-June to the end of August.
The flowers are very durable, stay fresh for a long time, retain their color perfectly even after drying.Fully developed inflorescences are cut for drying, then the leaves are removed, tied in bunches and hung with the inflorescences directed downwards. The best variety for drying is 'Parker'.
Lyme yarrow is also used in parks and gardens as a valuable plant for flower beds and garden groups made up of a few or a dozen plants.
There are several varieties in cultivation: 'Parker's Variety' with large and flat yellow inflorescences, 'Golden Plate' with very large, slightly convex, golden-yellow inflorescences and 'Cloth of Gold' with yellow flowers and long shoots (150 cm ).Lyme yarrow has low requirements, is easy to grow and, most importantly, long-lived.
Summer-blooming yarrow
Yarrow Achillea clype olata also has golden yellow flowers and is similar to meadowsweet yarrow.However, it does not reach such a large size (height 45-60 cm), blooms from June to August, and after trimming the inflorescences again in autumn, which is its additional advantage.
Yarrow kichawiec
Yarrow-syphilis Achillea ptarmica has been cultivated since the mid-16th century.Plants are 60-120 cm high and have white baskets 1.5 cm in diameter, gathered in loose umbellate inflorescences that appear from July to September .Snow-white full-flowered varieties such as 'Perle' with stiff stems 60 cm high and 'Perry's White' with more slender shoots and looser inflorescences are especially recommended for flower beds and cut flowers.Plants of this species and its varieties grow best in fertile, humus and moist soils.
