Helenium 'Honeycomb Hula'

All new from the team at Antique Perennials, this bountiful bloomer is strong and upright and vigorous. It provides enduring colour with honeycomb to amber hues with flashes of tangerine at the tips of the petals. It is a thing to behold.

In beds and borders, plant in groups for an amazing colour show late summer to autumn. Once the petals fall, the spent flower cones (seed heads) will remain ornamental into winter.

Keep the soil moist for best flowers and plant in a sunny position. The soil needs to be well drained and humus rich is ideal. In summer, remove spent flower heads to encourage even more blooms and keep them coming into autumn. The flowers grow larger in areas where there are cool nights.

Heleniums look best planted in groups or swathes.

Good companions include Crocosmia, Dahlias such as 'Bishop of Llandaff', Monarda, ornamental grasses, Salvia or Alstroemerias. In ideal conditions, the colony will gradually increase year after year.

Heleniums make great cut flowers.

Heleniums are commonly known as Sneezeweed because their dried foliage was once a substitute for snuff, they don’t shed pollen, so aren’t a cause of hay fever.