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Achillea millefolium 'Oertel's White' - COMMON YARROW 'OERTEL'S WHITE' (short and well behaved)
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White blooming yarrow that originates from 'Oertel's Rose'
Shorter, vigorous, north American genotype that will not vanish in your garden.
Best for more naturalistic looking garden, meadows or so.
Blooming time: main blooming time is early summer/summer, with some continuous reblooming till fall (especially if cut back)
Size: 12-14" tall and 24" wide, spreads wide in time, but can be easily limited by spade
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: Full sun, half shade, average (medium), dry, moderately fertile, leaner soils, adaptable, but avoid waterlogged soils. Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, dry
Origin: We found one plant that reversed from the original 'Oertel's Rose' and started to propagate it under 'Oertel's White', because it is very vigorous and shorter plant. This is North American genotype, so does persist in the garden (unlike cultivars with European genotypes - yarrow is also native to Europe). "Around 1983, we were growing different forms of Achillea millefolium, mostly from seed. They were various colors and usually grew about 3' tall. Typically, they were floppy and very unrully in the garden. One day, a sweet lady named Mae Oertel and her husband visited the nursery. They purchased a few things and as they were leaving she commented that she had moved to Athens from the mid-west and had brought with her a form of Achillea millefolium she had dug from a roadside ditch. She said that it only grew 12-14" tall when it bloomed and wasn't messy and floppy and wanted to share it with us. On her next visit, she brought us a start of her plant. We decided to name it after her and have been growing it ever since.
It is a beautiful plant with a deep, rose-pink flower cluster. Very well behaved in the garden, extremely drought tolerant, deer resistant, a butterfly attractor, as well as a great cut flower. Achillea 'Oertel's Rose' grows best in sunny locations in well drained soils and blooms over a long period of time." Goodness Grows Nursery, Lexington, GeorgiaDeer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Native plantings, naturalistic gardens, naturalizing (meadow planting). Better to combine with stronger competitive plans like taller Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Eupatorium (shorter), Liatris, Penstemons, Rudbeckias, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Stachys, and may others.
Goes well with plant requiring more moisture too - Phlox, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis, Physostegia etc.
Picture copyright : sonia hill, Commons Wikimedia
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Achillea millefolium 'Oertel's White' - COMMON YARROW 'OERTEL'S WHITE' (short and well behaved)
$7.99
White blooming yarrow that originates from 'Oertel's Rose'
Shorter, vigorous, north American genotype that will not vanish in your garden.
Best for more naturalistic looking garden, meadows or so.
Blooming time: main blooming time is early summer/summer, with some continuous reblooming till fall (especially if cut back)
Size: 12-14" tall and 24" wide, spreads wide in time, but can be easily limited by spade
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: Full sun, half shade, average (medium), dry, moderately fertile, leaner soils, adaptable, but avoid waterlogged soils. Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, dry
Origin: We found one plant that reversed from the original 'Oertel's Rose' and started to propagate it under 'Oertel's White', because it is very vigorous and shorter plant. This is North American genotype, so does persist in the garden (unlike cultivars with European genotypes - yarrow is also native to Europe). "Around 1983, we were growing different forms of Achillea millefolium, mostly from seed. They were various colors and usually grew about 3' tall. Typically, they were floppy and very unrully in the garden. One day, a sweet lady named Mae Oertel and her husband visited the nursery. They purchased a few things and as they were leaving she commented that she had moved to Athens from the mid-west and had brought with her a form of Achillea millefolium she had dug from a roadside ditch. She said that it only grew 12-14" tall when it bloomed and wasn't messy and floppy and wanted to share it with us. On her next visit, she brought us a start of her plant. We decided to name it after her and have been growing it ever since.
It is a beautiful plant with a deep, rose-pink flower cluster. Very well behaved in the garden, extremely drought tolerant, deer resistant, a butterfly attractor, as well as a great cut flower. Achillea 'Oertel's Rose' grows best in sunny locations in well drained soils and blooms over a long period of time." Goodness Grows Nursery, Lexington, GeorgiaDeer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Native plantings, naturalistic gardens, naturalizing (meadow planting). Better to combine with stronger competitive plans like taller Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Eupatorium (shorter), Liatris, Penstemons, Rudbeckias, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Stachys, and may others.
Goes well with plant requiring more moisture too - Phlox, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis, Physostegia etc.
Picture copyright : sonia hill, Commons Wikimedia
