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| 6/17/14 |
Aruncus aethusifolius
Two comepletely different sized goatsbeard plants. I got a dioicus plant in 2010, I think. I planted several dwarf aethusifolius in 2009.
Keep both goatsbeards moist and shaded.
The dioicus goatsbeard is a great big bushy shrub-like plant with astilbe like plumes of white frothy flowers.
I put it behind the Birch Garden, under the orange Japanese maple and hopefully in enough shade.
I don't even remember where I got this plant, or when I first planted it. It's had at least three years of moves and changes, so I probably started trying to grow this in 2010, maybe.
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| June 9, 2013 |
I planted a bunch at the back of the Birch Garden, next to its bigger bushy cousin, dioicus.
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| Aruncus aethusifolia June 16, 2012 |
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| June 16, 2012 |
The flowers on the big goatsbeard bush are amazing. The plumy flowers turn rusty red by July and continue to look good.
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| 6/10/14 |
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| 6/14/14 |
The dwarf goatsbeard have been moved and divided and are now forming a small clump that I want to grow together into a dense groundcover under the Orange Dream maple.
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| 5/17/14 starting to clump together |
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| 5/24/15 |
Crazy big spidery flowers, and the tiniest versions of them on the mat of dwarf aruncus below the big shrub.
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| 6/14/15 |
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| 6/14/15 |
In the drought summer of 2016 I lost all but one of the dwarf goatsbeard plants. They really need to be kept moist and shaded. The big dioicus plant survived okay.
