GEUM 'LADY STRATHEDEN'

Lady Stratheden is a beautiful geum with lovely leaves too.  I much prefer her golden sunniness to the hot oranges of some of the other geums.  However, she grows her flowers tall above her relatively low foliage, and her stems can need some support.  I grow mine at the edge of a border and have to stake her to avoid tripping over them.

Profile image of geum 'Lady Stratheden'

Lady Stratheden is so lovely and so reliable and easy to grow that the plant has earned the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (AGM). 





Geum 'Lady Stratheden'

The label says that Geum 'Lady Stratheden' is free flowering with glowing yellow double flowerse on slender stems above mounds of fresh green foliage.  It is suitable for borders, in sun or partial shade, on moist but well-drained, humus rich soil.  It is good for cutting.  It flowers late spring to late summer and achieves a height of approx. 60cm (24in) and spread of 45cm (18in). 





Close up of geum 'Lady Stratheden'

Mine grows at the bottom of my south-facing herbaceous border slope, in partial shade, where it is more moist and the soil is rich from constant applications of spent compost. 





Macro photograph of geum 'Lady Stratheden' seed head