Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae) BSWJ4972

stolonifera 'Kinki Purple'

A hardy evergreen perennial, with conspicuous rounded intricately veined purple-green leaves. Spreading by numerous long slender stolons hence the vernacular name of ‘Mother of a Thousand’. Forming a dense evergreen carpet of overlapping softly hairy foliage affording glimpses of the red-purple undersides. Flowering for us from June-September, on 30 cm pyramidical spikes of irregular white flowers with two long lower petals, while it will fill whatever space it is given, easily controlled as its spread is above ground. Originating from one of our wild collections from the high mountain forests of Dorogawa on the Kinki peninsula, on the island of Honshu Japan in the autumn of 1997. Easily grown in part to full shade and in a moist but drained soil.