Astilbe 'Milk and Honey'
"False goat's beard"
Orders placed until 29 February 2025
You can expect your order in February/March 2025
Orders placed 1 March - 15 April 2025
You can expect your order in March/April 2025
Orders placed 16 April - 15 May 2025
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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Description
Treat your garden to pure plant ambrosia, Astilbe 'Milk and Honey' – it’s not just incredibly beautiful, but it provides a sweet feast for pollinators and it’s incredibly easy and rewarding to grow. This heavenly plant with its graceful milky-white plumes in summer every year brings softness and light to the garden, particularly dimmer, shady spots or areas with damp soil. Its fluffy flowers, blushed with the lightest puff of powder pink, are just what is needed to illuminate and transform a shady corner or dull area, providing a fantastic focal point. The plumes emerge in mid summer on strong stems, keeping the blooms pleasingly upright and reaching a height of around 70cm. Even before flowering begins, Astilbe 'Milk and Honey' will look glorious with its leafy, deeply divided foliage, adding a note of lushness to borders or large containers in dappled or even full shade.
Astilbe chinensis 'Milk and Honey' is very floriferous, giving a long season of interest and looking good even after the flowers have faded and dried on the plant. It’s a great option for cut flowers and flower arranging, its fascinating blooms with their hundreds of tiny flowers creating great interest and texture, whether fresh or dried. Also known as false goat’s beard, Astilbe are fantastically robust plants, rarely troubled by pests or diseases and easy to grow and care for. Astilbe 'Milk and Honey' are perfect subjects for a woodland garden, water garden or any shady borders. Create an impressive show in shade by combining with astilbes in other colours, ferns, thalictrum and bergenia.
Key features
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Comes back every year
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Loved by pollinators
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Great for shade
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In peat-free compost
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Low maintenance
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RHS Award (AGM)
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Fully hardy
Specs & details
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Botanical name
Astilbe chinensis 'Milk and Honey'ᴾᴮᴿ
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Flower colour
White, pale pink
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Plant size
2/3 eyes
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Established height
70cm-1m
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Established spread
30-50cm
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Plant spacing
5 plants per m2
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Leaf colour
Green
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Habit
Upright
Clump-forming -
Life cycle
Perennial
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Hardiness
Fully hardy
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Years to establish
2-3 years
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Sunlight
Full shade
Partial shade
Dappled shade -
Position
Sheltered
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Suitable for
Large containers
Borders
Cottage gardens
Low maintenance gardens -
Soil acidity
Any
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Soil moisture
Damp
Free draining -
Soil type
Loam
Clay
Loam-based compost -
Growing skill
Easy to grow
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Scented
No
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Pollinator-friendly
Yes
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Mouse resistant
No
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Rabbit resistant
Yes
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Deer resistant
Yes
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Toxicity
No report
Plant calendar
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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- Planting
- Flowering
Useful information
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Soak the Astilbe 'Milk and Honey' roots in water for 3-6 hours prior to planting
Plant your "False goat's beard" bare roots into temporary pots with a multipurpose compost in spring and grow-on in a sheltered spot outdoors
Choose a pot which comfortably fits the bare roots. Some have a noticeable crown which should be just below the soil surface with any top growth exposed. Some varieties are a length of root which should be planted lengthways and shallowly (1-2cm deep).
Plant out into borders or permanent containers in late spring or early summer once in full growth. Choose a position in sun or shade depending on the variety.
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Orders placed until 29 February 2025
You can expect your order in February/March 2025Orders placed 1 March - 15 April 2025
You can expect your order in March/April 2025Orders placed 16 April - 15 May 2025
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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