Stairway To Heaven Jacob's Ladder

Ornamental Features:

Stairway To Heaven Jacob's Ladder features beautiful spikes of lavender flowers rising above the foliage from mid spring to mid summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. It's attractive ferny pinnately compound leaves remain bluish-green in colour with showy lemon yellow variegation and tinges of white throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Stairway To Heaven Jacob's Ladder is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Stairway To Heaven Jacob's Ladder is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• Rock/Alpine Gardens

Plant Characteristics:

Stairway To Heaven Jacob's Ladder will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 16 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.