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Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon' forming a carpet of red, cream and green variegated heart-shaped leaves with small white flowers at a garden pond edge (illustrative image)
Close-up of Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon' heart-shaped variegated leaves with pink-red edges and white four-bracted flowers (illustrative image)
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Houttuynia Cordata - Chameleon - Flowering Perennial Plant

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 Bright colourful ground cover plant - Frost hardy herbaceous perennial - Edible plant. 

Houttuynia 'Chameleon' (houttuynia chameleon) is a colourful ground cover plant, grown peat-free in Wales.


Houttuynia Cordata Chameleon plant also known as fish leaf, rainbow plant, heart leaf, fish wort or Chinese lizard tail. Houttuynia Cordata is a wide spreading herbaceous perennial, growing  into a small bush reaching up to 30 cm with pink rimmed variegated leaves followed with dainty white flowers in the summer. It grows from Spring to Autumn flowering in the May - July. Houttuynia Cordata is a scented plant is also an edible plant which can be used to make medicines. Fast growing. Houttuynia will also grow well in damp / waterlogged soil and is also appreciated as a pollinating plant.

Frost Hardy -  Herbaceous Perennial - Flowering Sub Shrub.

Flowering: May - July

Height: Comes up to 20 cm

2 litre pot.

Grows well in full sun or shade. Suitable for flower beds, borders, rockeries, pots and window boxes and as a ground cover plant and gap filling plant. Houttuyna will also look great as a tropical garden plant.

To maintain your Houttuynia plant it may need to be pruned  once a year at the end of the season once the plant fades.  We advise that you offer it some protection over the frosty winter months, by either bringing potted Houttuynia indoors or into a green house. If your planting in the gound you can add a thick multch in the winter to protect the root. Also this plant will drop it's leaves in the winter and may need to be containted to prevent it spreading over the garden.

  • Scented plant
  • Abundance of flowers from late spring to Autumn
  • Pet safe
  • Child safe
  • Semi Frost hardy
  • Easy to grow
  • Multipack discount
  • Grows well sun or shade
  • Thrives in damp soil and boggy pond edges
  • Fast growing

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All of our plants are grown locally at our Wenvoe nursery using sustainable practices: peat-free organic soil, rainwater irrigation, and zero pesticides or herbicides. All plants are shipped in recycled pots within 48 hours once ordered. Good for your garden, good for the planet.

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