Helenium 'Mardi Gras' produces a festival of multicolored blooms to jazz up the garden for six to eight weeks in mid to late summer
Yellow petals are lavishly edged with bright orange-red, aging to clear red edged in gold, all surrounding deep chestnut cones
Gorgeous in a pot!
Great as a cut flower, its long stems are sturdy and vase life is long
Heleniums are naturally resistant, even toxic, to deer and rabbits
An early pinch back helps promote branching
Produces a riot of multicolored blooms for six to eight weeks in summer, from late June to early August
Flowers are 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter
Forms upright clumps with sturdy stems that sway gracefully in summer breezes
A massed planting will form tight shrubby bushes of impressive size in two years
