{"id":9083,"date":"2014-11-14T00:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2014-11-14T03:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T10:14:57","slug":"growing-astilbe-glaberrima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-astilbe-glaberrima\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Growing Astilbe glaberrima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilibe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9086\" title=\"Astilbe glaberrima\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilibe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilibe.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilibe-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astilbe are well known herbaceous perennials with divided leaves and erect plume-like panicles of tiny white, pink or purple flowers in summer. The old, brown flower-heads remain attractive in autumn before the leaves die back. I have just acquired 2 dwarf plants.<\/p>\n<h3>Astilbe glaberrima<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Astilbe glaberrima var. saxatilis is a rhizomatous, <strong>dwarf<\/strong>, herbaceous perennial growing \u00c2\u00a0 2- 6&#8243; tall.<\/li>\n<li>They typically have glossy bronze-green, deeply divided leaves and short sprays of pink-tinged white flowers. It is also called by its common name, \u00c2\u00a0 Rock Astilbe.<\/li>\n<li>Plants are clump forming and like water and fertilizer when in growth.<\/li>\n<li>Insects are not a problem but powdery mildews may be troublesome.<\/li>\n<li>The plants are hardy in most aspects with or without shelter.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Any soil will suit as long as it is moist but loam with spring fertilizer helps.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate by division in late winter or early spring, pot divisions under glass and plant out in late spring. I intend keeping them in pots<\/li>\n<li>Astilbe glaberrima var. saxatilis is deciduous and the leaves are falling from the centre of both these plants.<\/li>\n<li>Companion plant Astilbes with Hostas and border phlox, which all like the same damp, shady conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RHS AGM 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/\">booklet<\/a> pdf. lists Astilbe with an AGM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilbe-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9087\" title=\"astilbe glaberama\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilbe-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilbe-3.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/astilbe-3-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Gardeners Tips Favourite Links <\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/\">The Royal Horticultural Society <\/a> (RHS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinegardensociety.net\/\">Alpine Garden Society<\/a> (AGS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/\">Garden Organic<\/a> the national charity for organic gardening formerly Henry Double Day Research<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/\">BBC Gardening<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/products\/\">Gardening Products<\/a> for tips and ideas on Garden products new and old.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk\/en\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Woodlands Trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificbulbsociety.org\/\">The Pacific Bulb Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=pansy=&amp;lbc=thompson-morgan&amp;uid=557154991&amp;ts=custom&amp;w=Pansy&amp;af=&amp;isort=score&amp;method=and&amp;view=plaintext&amp;cnt=300\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> search for seeds and plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"astilbe by Janet 59, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89509548@N00\/993541507\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1259\/993541507_0046eb5985.jpg\" alt=\"astilbe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Traditional Astilibe <strong>Credit<\/strong> astilbe by Janet 59 CC BY-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astilbe are well known herbaceous perennials with divided leaves and erect plume-like panicles of tiny white, pink or purple flowers in summer. The old, brown flower-heads remain attractive in autumn before the leaves die back. I have just acquired 2 dwarf plants. Astilbe glaberrima Astilbe glaberrima var. saxatilis is a rhizomatous, dwarf, herbaceous perennial growing \u00c2\u00a0 2- 6&#8243; tall. They typically have glossy bronze-green, deeply divided leaves and short sprays of pink-tinged white flowers. It is also called by its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-astilbe-glaberrima\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}