Helenium Feuersiegel (Sneezeweed)

Award-winner Helenium 'Feuersiegel' features cheerful daisylike flowers, 3 in. wide (8 cm), with upsweeping and upwardly curled petals surrounding a prominent chocolate brown center disk that is covered with golden pollen and attracts butterflies. The golden yellow petals are marked with an attractive broad red band. 'Feuersiegel' means 'Fiery Lightning-Bolt', a well-deserved name for this Helenium!

• This fabulous perennial provides weeks of splashes of color, from midsummer to fall, when many other perennials are starting to fade.
• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society
• Grows up to 4-5 ft. tall (120-150 cm) and spreads 2 ft. wide (60 cm)
• Looks stunning planted in mass, and mixes beautifully with ornamental grasses or any other perennial plants. Well suited for borders, cottage gardens, or naturalistic areas such as prairies or meadows.
• Very attractive as cut flowers, it has good resistance to most insects and diseases, attracts butterflies and deer ignore it!
• A full sun lover, it is very hardy and prefers average, medium to wet, well-drained soils. Prefers rich, moist soils and hates dry soils. Regular watering maters for profuse blossoms!
• Deadheading will extend the flowering season. Once flowering has ceased and the plant has died back the stems should be cut down.