Solomon's Seal is Polygonatum
Variegated Solomon's Seal is emerging in our back woodland garden this week. A few leaves have unfurled but mostly they look like the photo on the right.
Cold hardy in zones 3 through 8, gardeners in most of the US can grow them successfully.
Our first little clump came from a plant sale at the Tulsa Perennial Society's annual event.
This year's mild weather has caused the size of the clump to double! I'm over the moon thrilled, of course.
Fine Gardening Magazine comments that they are "well suited to woodlands, naturalized areas, shady borders, and rock gardens". Ours are thriving under large deciduous trees where the hammocks hang in the summertime.
We grow it for its beauty but foragers and herbalists grow it for it's health benefits.
Cortesia Herbal Products has a couple of interesting photos along with plant lore.
"Solomon's Seal (polygonatum biflorum, multiflorum, odoratum, etc.) is a medicinal herb that has diverse health restorative properties…
Cold hardy in zones 3 through 8, gardeners in most of the US can grow them successfully.
Our first little clump came from a plant sale at the Tulsa Perennial Society's annual event.
This year's mild weather has caused the size of the clump to double! I'm over the moon thrilled, of course.
Fine Gardening Magazine comments that they are "well suited to woodlands, naturalized areas, shady borders, and rock gardens". Ours are thriving under large deciduous trees where the hammocks hang in the summertime.
We grow it for its beauty but foragers and herbalists grow it for it's health benefits.
Cortesia Herbal Products has a couple of interesting photos along with plant lore.
"Solomon's Seal (polygonatum biflorum, multiflorum, odoratum, etc.) is a medicinal herb that has diverse health restorative properties…