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Lythrum virgatum 'Dropmore Purple'

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Size: 9cm pot Available: within 2-3 days £5.99

3 × 9cm pots Available: within 2-3 days

  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: fertile, deep, moist soil
  • Rate of Growth: average to fast
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Flowers: purple-red
  • Other features: attracts wildlife
  • Hardiness: fully hardy


Intense purple-red flowers appear on tall flower spikes from early summer above lance-shaped foliage. This is a spectacularly colourful plant for watersides, pond banks and woodland borders where the soil is reliably moist. It is a clump forming perennial that attracts butterflies, birds and bees to their nectar.

  • Garden Care: It self-seeds freely, so if you want to control its spread remove the flowerspikes as they fade.


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    • Eventual Height: 0.9m
    • Eventual Spread: 0.45m
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