Description

Geum rivale, commonly known as Water Avens, is a stunning perennial that offers continuous blooms from May to September. This prolific flowering plant produces delicate, nodding bell-shaped flowers in a lovely pinkish-red hue, adding a soft, charming touch to wetland gardens, pond edges, or naturalised spaces. The graceful flowers gently sway on tall, slender stems, creating a beautiful, airy display that attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies.

Water Avens thrives in moist, well-drained soils, making it perfect for damp garden areas or alongside water features. Its long flowering period ensures an ongoing show of color throughout the growing season, while its foliage provides lovely green coverage, adding texture and interest to the garden.

Features:

• Delicate nodding bell-shaped flowers in pinkish-red, blooming from May to September
• Prolific bloomer that attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies
• Ideal for wetland gardens, pond edges, or damp garden spaces
• Thrives in moist, well-drained soils, making it perfect for water gardens or boggy areas
• Long blooming season that adds continuous color to your garden

Add Geum rivale to your garden for a beautiful and long-lasting display of nodding pink-red flowers, perfect for wetland or pondside areas.

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. 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

Little maintenance is required. Trim just above the water surface after foliage has died back in Autumn to tidy.

Colour

Pink

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

May-Sept

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Native

Season

Spring, Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min –Max

30-50

Depth Min-Max

0-8