The Lady's Mantle grown for its soft velvet looking foliage rather than the flowers.

About The Lady's Mantle

The Lady's Mantle is grown for its soft, velvety looking foliage and dew drops on its leaves after a rain or first thing in the morning. While this shade perennial does not have the most attractive flowers, the foliage is incredible.

In the morning or after a rain the water droplets sit on the rounded pleated foliage and glisten in the sun.

How To Grow The Lady's Mantle

The blooms that rise from the center are a chartreuse color and do last for a very long time. However, after it rains and the flowers are wet, they do tend to fall over and not recover to its upright position.

This perennial grows very fast and can over run a shade garden. Just remove the unwanted plants and move them to another part of the garden or give them away. I rarely throw out good, healthy plants.

Pests do not seem to bother this perennial and nor any plant virus that I am aware of. Mine grow in my shade garden along with my Hosta Sum and Substance, my Bleeding Hearts, my Sedum Dragons Blood and my Ligularia Othello .

Check out my Site Index Page for a listing of additional annuals and perennials to plant in your flower garden design.

Lady's Mantle Features

• grows 8" to 24" tall
• prefers light shade
• when the summer heats up, make sure to give ample water or the leaves will droop
• thrives in any soil
• likes a bit of organic matter added each spring
• they grow pretty fast, so thin them out once they become a bit unruly looking
• flowers in early summer

Ladys Mantle showing the blooms. Image taken July 19, 2009

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