Ageratina
altissima Chocolate: Formally called
Eupatorium rugosa "Chocolate". Chocolate brown foliage in Spring
and Summer with the leaves turning slightly greener by Autumn.
Late
flowering with sprays of white flowers from late October. About 90cm / 3ft
tall and forming a clump about 60cm / 2ft across in time. Good in sun or
partial shade; the best leaf colour occurring in sun.
Common name: White Snakeroot.
RHS Award of Garden Merit.

See
this plant in partnership with the lovely Phlox
White Admiral in our Garden Diary for October
2009 |