Doronicum – Leopard’s Bane – A Favorite Early Spring Bloomer Doronicums are spring surprises for it’s the first daisy-shaped flowers of the season. Like magic, their delightful lemon-yellow, daisy-shapes appear among the blooming red tulips and yellow Daffodils. Doronicums grow about twelve-inches tall and almost as wide. Their dark-green, heart-shaped leaves embrace the upright, unbranched stem at its base. The leaves look leathery with pointy holly leaf like looking edges but are soft and pliable to the touch. The foliage is every bit as delightful as their flowers. Doronicum grows from a thickened underground stem called a rhizome that will creep to form lovely wide patches of flowers. To propagate Leopard’s...
Doronicum or Leopard’s Bane – A Spring Surprise
