Comments on: Stachyurus: Spring Spiketails https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Monika Watts https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/#comment-1007 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 06:04:45 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3846#comment-1007 Just found your article. Thanks for all the information and the pictures. Needed to check for pruning – obviously not in August, so wait for next year. One little bit of information I would have welcomed: How to take cuttings.
I looked for this plant for nearly eight years after a visit to Japan; garden centres do not seem to like it.

]]> By: Val Wilkes https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/#comment-1006 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:54:41 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3846#comment-1006 A favorite among “hortheads”-personally, I just don’t get it. Homely, gangly, rangy and I hesitate to say because I know people will hate me for this one-UGLY. It is very easy to grow after 3 years I’m ripping it out for something more attractive.

]]> By: Jared Barnes https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/#comment-1005 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:10:04 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3846#comment-1005 LOVE LOVE LOVE Stachyurus! Great read; great pics. The flower color pops against the buildings.

]]> By: Josh Coceano https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/#comment-1004 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:14:52 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3846#comment-1004 In reply to Nancy Buley.

Thank you, Nancy. A backdrop of stone helps highlight the blooms of Stachyurus. Darker backdrops seem especially effective.

]]> By: Nancy Buley https://www.scottarboretum.org/stachyurus/#comment-1003 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:21:45 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3846#comment-1003 One of the great late winter, early spring plants! I love this plant, and it is all the more beautiful against a background of the beautiful stone buildings of Swarthmore College. Thank you for a great article and photos!

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