Description

Bring a burst of vibrant color to your pond or bog garden with Caltha palustris ‘Plena’, the Double Marsh Marigold. Once established, this hardy perennial produces a stunning display of bright yellow, double flowers that bloom early in the spring, resembling a ball of sunshine. Its cheerful blooms provide an early source of color in your garden, making it an excellent choice for adding warmth and vibrancy to wetland areas, pond edges, or water features.

Key Features:

• Beautiful double yellow flowers that form a striking, ball-shaped display in early spring
• Ideal for moist, damp environments, including pond edges, bog gardens, and water features
• Early-blooming, providing one of the first splashes of color in the garden after winter
• Easy to grow and low-maintenance once established, thriving in wet, shaded conditions
• Hardy perennial that returns year after year, ensuring long-lasting beauty

‘Plena’ is the perfect plant to add cheerful color and texture to your water garden, creating an eye-catching focal point in early spring and adding beauty throughout the growing season.

Repotting or planting

9cm marginal plants require potting into a larger mesh basket. Place in a pond no deeper than 1/3 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 1ltr marginal plants do not require repotting, place in the pond no deeper than 1/2 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish, plants over 60cm height growth will benefit from repotting into a larger mesh basket or should be planted in gravel to prevent them from falling over. 3ltr and 5ltr plants do not require repotting, as they are larger more established plants they can be placed up to the maximum recommended depth. There is no need to remove the mesh basket.

Care instructions

After flowering in March and April, most foliage will die back. Remove dead leaves to tidy and encourage a potential second flowering.

Colour

Yellow

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

Mar-Apr

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Native

Season

Spring

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

30-50

Depth Min-Max

0-15