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Antennaria dioica Alex Duguid is the perfect perennial for the edge of borders, creating stunning, ‘woolly’ evergreen rosettes, a fascinating favourite for a hot sunny spot.Silvery-grey leaves with white undersides, form an attractive weed-suppressing carpet, which looks great in your borders and containers all year round. In late spring and early summer masses of short stems rise, each holding a cluster of small, dark pink, fluffy-looking flowers in the shape of a cat’s paw, hence the common names Pussy Toes or Cat’s Foot. You will have butterflies flocking to your garden. Fascinating, fluffy seed heads follow. Antennaria Alex Duguid is the perfect perennial for rockeries, gravel gardens, containers or to fill gaps between slabs, growing almost anywhere but preferring poor, dry soil in sun. Reaching an overall height of 10cm and spreading up to 45cm, Antennaria are fast growing and fully hardy so will not require any winter protection.
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Key Information
| Latin Name | Antennaria dioica Alex Duguid 9cm pot |
|---|---|
| Common Name | Cat’s foot |
| Hardiness | H5 (-10 to -15°C) |
| Colour | Pink |
| Type | Perennial |
| Format | 9cm Pots |
| Position | Full-Sun |
| Foliage | Evergreen |
| Height in Maturity (m) | 0.15 m |
| Spread in Maturity (m) | 0.45 |
| Soil Conditions | Chalk Loam Sand |
| Soil Acidity | Acid Alkaline Neutral |
| Aspect | East-facing, North-facing, South-facing, West-facing |
| Drought Tolerant | Yes |
| Good for pots | Yes |
| Good for Rockeries | Yes |
| Good for pollinators | Yes |
| Good for groundcover | Yes |
