Thalictrum delavayi plants – ( Meadow Rue)

Description

Thalictrum delavayi has beautiful, fine feathery foliage similar to a small aquilegia leaf , or perhaps a maidenhair fern leaf. This plant’s clusters of flowers  may be white or mauve as both are growing close together, and these are seed grown plants pollenated by the bees.  They are borne in panicles aloft on purple  tinged or green  stems  in an airy spray of misty lilac mauve or white.

Cut down stems as soon as flowering has completed. Divide the  plant every 2-3 years as soon as growth begins in spring, in order to maintain its strength. Large divisions can be replanted outside, smaller ones overwintered in a greenhouse for planting out the following spring.

Thalictrum are native to stream banks, shaded mountains, and moist meadows throughout most of the world and thus they like dappled shade and moisture retentive soil , which is not waterlogged.  Most Thalictrum are late to emerge in mid to late spring, so take care not to disturb their crowns.