Day 306: Ligularia dentata ‘Desdemona’

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There are several good reasons I can think of to grow Ligularia dentata ‘Desdemona’. It’s good on moderately soggy soils and it has fabulously large and rounded, deep maroon leaves, above which – slightly unexpectedly, if I’m honest – it raises flowering stems topped with rich orange-yellow daisies. And finally, when foliage has died back and petals have dropped, there remain the stems, and pompom button seedheads aplenty. I’d hazard a guess that it’s most often planted for its luxuriant foliage and the flowering interest, but it says something that of all the photos I have of it, not a one captures anything but the seedheads.

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