Anthemis tinctoria Sauce Hollandaise - Marguerite

<strong>Genus <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/anthemis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Anthemis</em></a> offers attractive hardy plants for summer containers, sunny borders or rockeries</strong>, all originating from Mediterranean Basin or Asia Minor. Flowering in the form of heads, as with daisy, is generally profuse when conditions are right. Wild species usually produce vivid colours — white with yellow centre, golden yellow or orange — while horticultural forms often show softer shades easier to combine, cream in <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/anthemis/anthemis-tinctoria-sauce-hollandaise-marguerite.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthemis Sauce Hollandaise</a>, lemon yellow in Kelway’s Variety, etc. <strong>Plant Anthemis in dry, poor, gravelly soil and a sunny position</strong>! With rapid growth, they will reward you with a <strong>long and</strong> <strong>generous flowering</strong> <strong>starting in May or June</strong> and lasting 2 to 4 months depending on species. <img class="size-full wp-image-59712 aligncenter" src="https://www.promessedefleurs.com/blogwp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/anthemis1-.jpg" alt="daisy" width="1172" height="410" /> <strong>Most vigorous forms</strong> make clumps 40 to 70 cm across and <strong>are well suited to borders or to plant against a low wall</strong> (Anthemis tinctoria, sancti-johannis, hybrids) <strong>while compact, spreading-habit species</strong> such as Anthemis cretica, cupaniana, marschalliana <strong>are ideal in rockeries or for edging</strong>. True sun-lovers par excellence, <strong>Anthemis are undemanding about soil quality</strong> and most of all dislike excess winter moisture. <strong>Plant in ordinary, well-drained soil, slightly acidic to neutral or calcareous</strong>. Their lifespan is shorter and their frost tolerance lower in heavy soil than in poor, dry soil. <strong>These species are hardy to very hardy</strong>, as with dyer’s chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria) which tolerates down to -30°C. <strong>Maintenance consists only of cutting back clumps after flowering</strong> to encourage new shoots and promote a re-flowering in autumn. This helps plants cope better with a rainy winter. The operation also produces an attractive rosette of leaves in winter and can extend plant life, which sometimes lasts only a single season.