Description

Add a soft, graceful touch to your garden with Cardamine pratensis (Cuckoo Flower, also known as Lady’s Smock). This lovely perennial features mounds of delicate pale green, ferny foliage, which serves as a beautiful backdrop to its pale lilac blooms that appear in spring. A favorite of pollinators, it’s also one of the food plants of the Orange Tip butterfly, making it a perfect addition to a wildlife-friendly garden. Ideal for moist, damp areas, this charming flower brings both beauty and ecological value to your landscape.

• Flower Color: Soft pale lilac
• Foliage: Mounds of pale green, fern-like leaves
• Ideal For: Wet meadows, damp borders, or pond edges
• Wildlife Friendly: A food source for the Orange Tip butterfly
• Growing Conditions: Prefers moist, well-drained soil and full sun to partial shade

Create a stunning, wildlife-friendly garden with the delicate beauty of the Cuckoo Flower, a plant that not only enhances your landscape but also supports local pollinators.

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

No maintenance is required but you may trim seed heads to encourage more flowers.

Colour

Pale Lilac

Growth rate

Medium/Slow

Flowers

Apr-June

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Native

Season

Spring-Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

20-30

Depth Min-Max

0-10