Gateway Joe-Pye Weed
It is a great background plant but does need a lot of room to grow.
The Eupatorium `Gateway Joe-Pye Weed', Eupatorium purpureum, is a wonderful lavender purple bloomer that stands 4' tall with a plant spread the 29-35". With beautiful wine red stems that develop large green leaves, it is a definite attractor to butterflies and bees and is deer resistant.
Joe Pye Weed' looks wonderful with Rudbeckia `Black Eyed Susan', Aster `Woods Purple', with ornamental grasses or in a perennial border.
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For United States gardeners ... remember to fertilize your lawn around the summer holidays. First on Memorial Day weekend to start the summer, again on Labor Day after the heat of the summer has passed, and finally near Halloween for a healthy lawn next spring.
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