Good plant #20 - Tanecetum Niveum 'Jackpot'

Quite simply, this hardy short-lived perennial plant is more floriferous than any plant I have come across.  Before the daisy-like flowers completely cover this dome forming plant, it has beautiful silvery blue and fragrant foliage which is attractive in its own right.

It likes a sunny position and free draining soil.

This plant is very easy to grow from seed and I have taken cuttings in spring and after flowering - both have worked sporadically.

Oddly this plant is its own worst enemy.  My theory is that because it produces so many flowers, it runs out of energy to keep going for a further year of flowering or maybe it is more of a biennial.  I would suggest that as soon as more than half of the flowers begin to look ropey, hack it right back to a 3 or 4 inches of leaves and stalks give it a liquid feed on the soil round the base of the plant.  Be warned, I have had mixed success with this approach but if you take cuttings too, there's no worries.

Use the 'SEARCH THIS BLOG' function (right) or click here for more good plants and gardening tips: http://greenshootsgardeningandhorticulture.blogspot.com/