Mathiasella bupleuroides ‘Green Dream’

Mathiasella bupleuroides ‘Green Dream’ is beautiful and decidedly unusual looking perennial. Last year our plants in the garden attracted many admiring comments as visitors tried to guess what they were: “is it a Euphorbia?..an Angelica? Or maybe some type of Hellebore? Mathiasella – or “Matthew’s in the cellar’ as I remember it – is a genus of only one known species from Mexico. It belongs to the umbel family Apiaceae. In Spring its upright stems reach up to 1 metre and are topped with large hanging bell like flowers. These are actually jade green bracts with tiny black flowers hidden within. Their vibrant green bracts last and last throughout the Summer gradually aging to a beautiful dusky pink. Mathiesella likes humus rich soils and cannot tolerate Winter wet. It can be planted in full sun or part shade, but we have had most success planting it in a sheltered spot amongst the dappled shade of a small tree, and on a sloping site and that way it is protected in the harshest Winter weather.

£6.50