Rheum rhabarbarum 'Glaskins Perpetual' - RHUBARB 'GLASKINS PERPETUAL'
Old-fashioned and still popular edible plant. But also very ornamental plant with bold structure, reddish stems, cream-white flowers and very deer and rabbit resistant!
Just try to combine it with hardy geraniums, groundcovers, Siberian Iris, tall Phlox, ornamental grasses!
Cooked stems have sweet/tart taste, and can be harvested "perpetually" during the whole season - there's no increase the acidity in time.
The best is to choose the spot wisely and leave it undisturbed, if you have to move it, transplant in pre-spring before any sprouting starts to happen (less successful can be transplanting later in mid fall).
Blooming Time: late spring/ early summer to late summer. Clusters of creamy white flowers
Size: about 24-32” tall and 24-36" wide, in good conditions forms wider clumps
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: full sun, half sun, tolerates half shade, average soil amended with compost, organic rich, loamy soil, average moisture (medium) to moist
Moisture Needs: average to moist
Origin: a garden hybrid, originates in southern Siberia to north and central China
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no / no
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright: Øyvind Holmstad, Commons Wikipedia
Plant combinations: Looks naturally well close to water bodies, garden streams, sunken gardens, rain gardens or where moisture stays. But also looks great with bigger rocks. Can be planted as single individual plant, or used with other perennials. Due to it's robust leaves, any surrounding plant will always look more delicate, but great combinations are with grassy looking plants like Iris (if you have slightly more moist soil, use I. sibirica, I. ensata, I. pseudata, I. x louisiana, in average moisture you can combine even with bearded Iris), Hemerocallis (daylily), Tradescantia and variety of grasses with wider leaves - Calamagrostis, Carex (sedges), Hakonechloa (in cooler areas), Pennisetum and Miscanthus (where those to are not becoming invasive), Molinia, Panicum. Other great group of plants that matches well are lower growing, creeping or groundcovering perennials that can grow around like Ajuga, low Alchemilla, hardy Geraniums, Waldsteinia. Other plants that go well with are Echinacea (with wider leaves), Filipendula, Sanguisorba, tall Phlox, Physostegia and many others.
Rheum rhabarbarum 'Glaskins Perpetual' - RHUBARB 'GLASKINS PERPETUAL'
Old-fashioned and still popular edible plant. But also very ornamental plant with bold structure, reddish stems, cream-white flowers and very deer and rabbit resistant!
Just try to combine it with hardy geraniums, groundcovers, Siberian Iris, tall Phlox, ornamental grasses!
Cooked stems have sweet/tart taste, and can be harvested "perpetually" during the whole season - there's no increase the acidity in time.
The best is to choose the spot wisely and leave it undisturbed, if you have to move it, transplant in pre-spring before any sprouting starts to happen (less successful can be transplanting later in mid fall).
Blooming Time: late spring/ early summer to late summer. Clusters of creamy white flowers
Size: about 24-32” tall and 24-36" wide, in good conditions forms wider clumps
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: full sun, half sun, tolerates half shade, average soil amended with compost, organic rich, loamy soil, average moisture (medium) to moist
Moisture Needs: average to moist
Origin: a garden hybrid, originates in southern Siberia to north and central China
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no / no
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright: Øyvind Holmstad, Commons Wikipedia
Plant combinations: Looks naturally well close to water bodies, garden streams, sunken gardens, rain gardens or where moisture stays. But also looks great with bigger rocks. Can be planted as single individual plant, or used with other perennials. Due to it's robust leaves, any surrounding plant will always look more delicate, but great combinations are with grassy looking plants like Iris (if you have slightly more moist soil, use I. sibirica, I. ensata, I. pseudata, I. x louisiana, in average moisture you can combine even with bearded Iris), Hemerocallis (daylily), Tradescantia and variety of grasses with wider leaves - Calamagrostis, Carex (sedges), Hakonechloa (in cooler areas), Pennisetum and Miscanthus (where those to are not becoming invasive), Molinia, Panicum. Other great group of plants that matches well are lower growing, creeping or groundcovering perennials that can grow around like Ajuga, low Alchemilla, hardy Geraniums, Waldsteinia. Other plants that go well with are Echinacea (with wider leaves), Filipendula, Sanguisorba, tall Phlox, Physostegia and many others.