Rodgersia is a big, bold plant that is grown mostly for its large and striking foliage. A genus of just six species, it is native to Eastern Asia. The leaves are palmately compound with five deeply veined leaves that look like a big oak leaf. They emerge in the spring a golden bronze color, and go green in the summer when it puts up a stalk of small, astilbe-like flowers from June to August. In the fall the leaves turn a bronze red making it a great plant for all seasons. It is native to wooded stream banks and woodland edges so it does best in moist, cool soils and part shade. Spreads from the crown with rhizomatous roots, so give it some room. Rodgersia is named for Admiral John Rodgers who”discovered” it and brought the plant back from an expedition to the Pacific.
R. podophyla - Clump forming, rhizomatous to 4ft. Bears panicles of creamy, astilbe-like flowers in late summer. Great border plant. Sold in gallon pots.
R. pinnata (or aesculifolia) - A less aggressive form with coppery leaves that retain a metallic sheen. Pink flowering. Slow to establish and very nice. Check back, I’ll have the specific species ‘Cultivar’ soon. Sold as bare root divisions.
Rodgersia is a big, bold plant that is grown mostly for its large and striking foliage. A genus of just six species, it is native to Eastern Asia. The leaves are palmately compound with five deeply veined leaves that look like a big oak leaf. They emerge in the spring a golden bronze color, and go green in the summer when it puts up a stalk of small, astilbe-like flowers from June to August. In the fall the leaves turn a bronze red making it a great plant for all seasons. It is native to wooded stream banks and woodland edges so it does best in moist, cool soils and part shade. Spreads from the crown with rhizomatous roots, so give it some room. Rodgersia is named for Admiral John Rodgers who”discovered” it and brought the plant back from an expedition to the Pacific.
R. podophyla - Clump forming, rhizomatous to 4ft. Bears panicles of creamy, astilbe-like flowers in late summer. Great border plant. Sold in gallon pots.
R. pinnata (or aesculifolia) - A less aggressive form with coppery leaves that retain a metallic sheen. Pink flowering. Slow to establish and very nice. Check back, I’ll have the specific species ‘Cultivar’ soon. Sold as bare root divisions.
