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The flower spikes have a wonderfully unusual, yet beautiful, yellow and lavender combination. 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The specific epithet of millefolium means thousand-leaved in reference to the foliage being more intense than other Achillea. Achillea has a plethora of additional common names, including milfoil, thousandleaf, soldier’s woundwort, bloodwort, nose bleed, devil’s nettle, sanguinary, old-man’s-pepper and stenchgrass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYarrow ale was a popular choice for weddings because of its tendency to increase energy, act as an aphrodisiac and generally “make the guests crazy.” At Ballyrobert we use it solely for gardening purposes..... honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many cultivars of Achillea in a variety of colours. It prefers to be grown in most soils that are reasonably well drained. Achillea is another versatile plant in the garden at Ballyrobert;  it looks great with all sorts of grasses and prairie style plants but the fern-like foliage and cow-parsley type flower heads also help it blend with some woodland or cottage style plants. 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The specific epithet of millefolium means thousand-leaved in reference to the foliage being more intense than other Achillea. Achillea has a plethora of additional common names, including milfoil, thousandleaf, soldier’s woundwort, bloodwort, nose bleed, devil’s nettle, sanguinary, old-man’s-pepper and stenchgrass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYarrow ale was a popular choice for weddings because of its tendency to increase energy, act as an aphrodisiac and generally “make the guests crazy.” At Ballyrobert we use it solely for gardening purposes..... honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many cultivars of Achillea in a variety of colours. It prefers to be grown in most soils that are reasonably well drained. Achillea is another versatile plant in the garden at Ballyrobert;  it looks great with all sorts of grasses and prairie style plants but the fern-like foliage and cow-parsley type flower heads also help it blend with some woodland or cottage style plants. 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The epithet 'vulgaris' means common - not vulgar! Despite being short-lived it will spread via seed like other Aquilegia (which is the main reason to buy this plant). 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It has large, lilac-purple flowers with slender, linear petals plus attractive, dark-green foliage.The x frikartii species which is always a late-summer delight and its elegance and longevity have prompted admiration from our best plantsmen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of A. x frikartii goes back more than 100 years and is an interesting one. A shorter growing, longer flowering Himalayan species, Aster thomsonii, had just been introduced into England, and Rev Charles Wolley-Dod, a clergyman x plantsman hybrid (get it?), had the idea of crossing it with the taller, short-flowering Italian Aster amellus which had been growing in the British Isles for three centuries.\u003cbr\u003eWolley-Dod raised seedlings which he exhibited to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1892. 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