Bright colourful ground cover plant - Frost hardy herbaceous perennial - Edible plant.
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 spring. 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: April - October
Height: 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.
Maintenance level 2 - 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
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