Helenium Potters Wheel (Sneezeweed)

Helenium 'Potter's Wheel' produces eye-catching flowers, 2 in. wide (5 cm), with deep crimson-brown petals, each adorned with a thin golden-yellow edge. The petals are held flat, around a chocolate brown cone, which fades to yellow as the flower matures. Rather sparsely petalled, the blossoms are elegantly borne atop the foliage of oblong to lance-shaped, dark green leaves, and create an impressive display in the late summer garden.

• This fabulous perennial provides weeks of splashes of color, from late summer to fall, when many other perennials are starting to fade.
• Grows up to 3-4 ft. tall (90-120 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.