Description

Add a charming and vibrant touch to your wetland or shaded garden with Chrysosplenium alternifolium (Alternate-Leaved Golden Saxifrage). This mat-forming perennial grows between 5 and 15 cm tall, creating a lush carpet of attractive foliage. Known for its unique alternate-leaved pattern, it produces delicate yellow-green flowers that bloom from March onward, bringing early-season color to your garden. Perfect for damp, shaded environments, this easy-to-grow plant thrives in moist, well-drained soil, making it ideal for pond edges, stream banks, or woodland gardens.

• Height: Grows 5–15 cm tall
• Flowering: Yellow-green flowers bloom from March onward
• Ideal For: Damp, shaded areas, pond edges, and woodland gardens
• Growth Habit: Mat-forming, ground cover
• Perfect For: Adding early-season color and texture to wet or shaded spots

The Alternate-Leaved Golden Saxifrage is a delightful addition to any moisture-loving garden, offering both beauty and a soft, ground-covering presence.

Repotting or planting

Bare Root and 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 immediately, 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. Larger plants in 3ltr and 5ltr pots do not require repotting for many years as they are larger more established plants can be placed up to the maximum recommended depth. There is no need to remove the mesh basket.

Care instructions

Little maintenance is required. Trim just above the water surface after foliage has died back in Autumn to tidy leaving a little material to protect new shoots or trim in spring when actively growing

Colour

Green/yellow

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

March-June

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Season

Spring

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

10-15

Depth Min-Max

0-5