This hardy herbaceous perennial flowers in late spring/ early summer, when many plants have finished flowering and others are yet to start.
If you chop it back after flowering, you sometimes get a second flush of flowers late in the season.
It will cope with almost any soil and sunlight.
You can take young basal or root cuttings in spring to propagate.
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