Coronation Gold Yarrow
Achillea 'Coronation Gold'
A lovely, fast growing perennial with an upright-mounded habit; featuring ferny green leaves and golden yellow colored blooms during the summer months; a perfect addition to garden beds, borders and fresh cut arrangements
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Coronation Gold Yarrow is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.
Ornamental Qualities
Coronation Gold Yarrow is smothered in stunning gold flat-top flowers at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tomentose ferny leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Coronation Gold Yarrow will grow to be about 32 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to dry locations | and dislikes excessive moisture. It is considered to be drought-tolerant | and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil pH | but grows best in poor soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level dry to average
Mature Size 32"Hx24"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are gold
Flowers from early to late summer
Attracts bees; butterflies; hummingbirds
Zone 2b
Likes average to moist soil