Big, bold and brassy 3 reasons to love growing Inula

What is Inula

• This is a yellow flowering, herbaceous, perennial that grows 3-4 feet tall in my garden. The leaves are large, gently serrated and light green.
• The flower stalks have up to seven daisy like flowers on firm stems. Support in high winds.
• Inula is very attractive to bees and hoverflies.
• The flowers go brown in the centre once they have been fertilized.

Inula Varieties

• Inula magnifica grows in most soil conditions and is good near a pond.
• The pygmy Inula acaulis has rosettes of narrow 1.5″ leaves and golden daisies 1″ or more across.
• Inula hookeri is a clump-forming perennial with hairy self supporting stems and large, spidery, yellow, daisy flowers.

Propagation and More

• Propagate by splitting the clumps
• Micropropagation of Inula racemosa is explained in this interesting article.
• More about yellow daisies.
• See more images.