Its cousin, Persicaria tinctoria, is the source of beautiful blues in Japanese traditional textiles and while the campanulata version doesn’t generally yield usable indicans I have from time to time noticed prints on cloth made with the leaves oxidising to a blue-green. So I would welcome it in my garden, if it stood a chance of surviving the weather here.
Funny enough back in May I bought a plant with pretty leaves,arrow-shaped with a red stripe on them under the name vietnamese coriander. I had no intention of using it for cooking. It's actually "Persicaria odorata" and in this summer weather the leafy stems if you swish them spread a lovely perfume into the air. It was growing well then a helpful weeder mistook it for a weed and pulled it all out. I rescued it and chopped all stems up now I have a multitude of cuttings perfect for the sort of location you're describing. So a blessing in disguise,lol,and id recommend it along with the ones you've featured.
I don't know -yet. I guess I'll learn this winter! It does look like the kind of "gift that never stops giving" kind of plant. It's regrowing vigorously from the bits of root missed by the enthusiastic weeder.
Its cousin, Persicaria tinctoria, is the source of beautiful blues in Japanese traditional textiles and while the campanulata version doesn’t generally yield usable indicans I have from time to time noticed prints on cloth made with the leaves oxidising to a blue-green. So I would welcome it in my garden, if it stood a chance of surviving the weather here.
It does need wet.
That’s a beauty. My favourite is Persicaria Bistorta Superba.
O - there are also lots of poker type ones like that - great, aren't they? Understandably a favourite.
Funny enough back in May I bought a plant with pretty leaves,arrow-shaped with a red stripe on them under the name vietnamese coriander. I had no intention of using it for cooking. It's actually "Persicaria odorata" and in this summer weather the leafy stems if you swish them spread a lovely perfume into the air. It was growing well then a helpful weeder mistook it for a weed and pulled it all out. I rescued it and chopped all stems up now I have a multitude of cuttings perfect for the sort of location you're describing. So a blessing in disguise,lol,and id recommend it along with the ones you've featured.
I haven't had personal experience of that one - is it maybe tender? The swishing scent sounds great!
I don't know -yet. I guess I'll learn this winter! It does look like the kind of "gift that never stops giving" kind of plant. It's regrowing vigorously from the bits of root missed by the enthusiastic weeder.
Great - keep one indoors, just in case….
It sounds like just the plant to co-exist with the ground elder on my river bank!
O, yes!
This looks fabulous, Anne - I might need to get one or two. Looks like they'll make their way merrily through wherever I decide to put them.
I love the way a spreader like this brings a border together by weaving. BUT believe me - it devours space.