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Sun exposure: part shade to full sun (4 or more hours of sunlight a day)
Soil: performs best in average garden soils
Traits
Special Care Instructions
None. Betony is a very easy to grow perennial for part shade to full sun and average soils.
Flowering Time
June and July.
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
The flowers of Betony are held above the foliage in spikes and are a brilliant shade of pink. Its bright evergreen leaves have attractively scalloped edges. Betony is an easy to grow plant that performs equally well in sun or shade. Spent flower spikes are showy well into winter. This is a carefree, deer resistant, 4-season plant that deserves to be more widely used.
For the culinary herb garden, Betony makes a wonderful replacement for a cup of black tea. Because of its prolific nature, Betony is a great base herb for your herb tea mixes, where it offers a light, clean flavor.
The name Betony is alleged to derive from the ancient Celtic words bew (head) and ton (good), an indication of its use for headaches. Medicinally, Betony has a long history. The Romans listed at least 47 illnesses that Betony was said to cure. It was said that wild animals ate Betony when they were injured. More recently, Betony is used by well known herbalists for tension headaches, including migraines.
Varieties
Soil: performs best in average garden soils
Traits
Special Care Instructions
None. Betony is a very easy to grow perennial for part shade to full sun and average soils.
Flowering Time
June and July.
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
The flowers of Betony are held above the foliage in spikes and are a brilliant shade of pink. Its bright evergreen leaves have attractively scalloped edges. Betony is an easy to grow plant that performs equally well in sun or shade. Spent flower spikes are showy well into winter. This is a carefree, deer resistant, 4-season plant that deserves to be more widely used.
For the culinary herb garden, Betony makes a wonderful replacement for a cup of black tea. Because of its prolific nature, Betony is a great base herb for your herb tea mixes, where it offers a light, clean flavor.
The name Betony is alleged to derive from the ancient Celtic words bew (head) and ton (good), an indication of its use for headaches. Medicinally, Betony has a long history. The Romans listed at least 47 illnesses that Betony was said to cure. It was said that wild animals ate Betony when they were injured. More recently, Betony is used by well known herbalists for tension headaches, including migraines.
Varieties
Betony
Stachys
Stachys
Growing Conditions
Attracts Hummingbirds
Deer Resistant
Good Cut Flower
Dwarf 8" tall
| • | Short, dense, upright spikes of pink flowers are produced in late June and July. |
| • | Glossy, waxy, crenate foliage is burn and wilt resistant in summer and evergreen all winter. |
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Hummelo 18-20" tall
| • | Flowers are a vivid shade of rose-pink in mid-summer. |
| • | Wonderful for sweeps of color and edging! |
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Pink Cotton Candy 12" tall
| • | Cotton-candy pink flowers rise above the foliage in June and July. |
| • | Selected by the Chicago Botanical Garden for its large, bright pink flowers. |
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Attracts Butterflies
Wood Betony with Coreopsis and Coneflowers