{"id":4820,"date":"2015-11-08T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.90\/penlanperennials.co.uk\/?product=actaea-simplex-atropurpurea-group"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:27:14","slug":"actaea-simplex-atropurpurea-group","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/plant\/shade-and-woodland-plants\/actaea-simplex-atropurpurea-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Actaea simplex \u2018Atropurpurea Group\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers: Sept-Oct.\u00a0 Plant in moist, part shade.\u00a0 HxS 2mx1m<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;must-have&#8217; for a woodland garden or a waterside situation.\u00a0 The deeply dissected purple leaves emerge in late spring and the dark stems contrast wonderfully with arching spikes of scented, white to cream flowers, which start flowering in early autumn.\u00a0 The multiple stems can reach 5ft with the flowers being carried as terminal racemes.\u00a0 No staking is required and the species is easy to grow as well as being pest and disease resistant. Best planted in a moist soil which does not water log in winter.\u00a0 A good late season pollinator. Pot size 1.5 litre.<\/p>\n<p>Care &amp; Maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Cut back the flower stems after flowering.\u00a0 The foliage collapses after the first hard frost and can be tidied in autumn or spring.\u00a0 Propagate by seed or division in spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers: Sept-Oct.\u00a0 Plant in moist, part shade.\u00a0 HxS 2mx1m A &#8216;must-have&#8217; for a woodland garden or a waterside situation.\u00a0 The deeply dissected purple leaves emerge in late spring and the dark stems contrast wonderfully with arching spikes of scented, white to cream flowers, which start flowering in early autumn.\u00a0 The multiple stems can reach 5ft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[1181,59],"product_tag":[1103,812,249,808,809,248,814,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlanperennials.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}