'Purple Robe' Saxifrage Plants

Rockfoil / Mossy Saxifrage Plants: Saxifraga x arendsii 'Purple Robe'. 1 Litre Pots

Part of the Mossy Saxifrage group, Purple Robe is a low evergreen perennial that spreads via offsets into a mat of attractive light green ground cover. For such a little plant, it flowers profusely, covered in five petalled Red-Purple flowers from April into midsummer.

Delivery season: Saxifrage plants are delivered in pots year round, when in stock.

Features:

• Ideal for rockeries & containers
• Hardy evergreen perennial
• Red-Purpleflowers April - Jun/July
• Matt forming ground cover
• Partial shade tolerant
• Low maintenance
• To 15cm x 30cm

Growing Purple Robe Saxifrage

These hardy succulents prefer a bit of shade, especially in midday: in the South they are suitable for close to (but not quite) full shade, and in Scotland full sun is generally fine as long as they are sheltered. They require neutral to alkaline, sharply drained, sandy or gritty soil that is consistently moist in the growing season, so they do need watering in dry weather. Like other succulents, they cannot stand being waterlogged, especially in winter.

Trim off the flower stalks when the season is over.

Please note: If you receive your plants in late Autumn or during winter, it is better not to plant them outside until the weather warms up in Spring. They won't establish well in cold soil, and there is a small risk of them failing as a result.

Did You Know?

Purple has been the colour of royalty since the days of the Phoenicians. In antiquity, Imperial or Tyrian purple dye was acquired from Murex sea snails and was expensive beyond the mean of ordinary folk. Today, the ancient art has been kept alive by the work of craftsmen like Ghassen Nouira in Tunisia.

By pure coincidence, the colours Blue and Red, which are used to denote the Left and Right wing political parties in many democracies including Britain and America, combine to make purple.