Double Japanese Kerria

Double Japanese Kerria is a tough but graceful deciduous shrub with an upright mounding habit of arching branches and shiny, heavily veined fresh green foliage. Heavy blooms of rounded pom-pom like double yellow flowers coat the branches of old growth from mid to late spring.  Best color in part sun and loamy well-drained soil.  Flowers will pale with too much sun.  Tolerates heavy shade, wet soil, and deer.

Syn with K. japonica ‘Flore Pleno’.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Medium Maintenance.  Water Regularly. No serious pests or diseases. Watch for leaf spots, cankers, blights and root rot. Prune as needed after flowering.  Promptly remove any unwanted suckers.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Wildlife Gardens, Woodland Gardens, Hedges, Foundation Plantings, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Hair Sedge, Siberian Bugloss, Clematis

IMAGES: Famartin, 2019-04-25 12 28 54 Japanese marigold bush flowering along Old Dairy Road in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) ignis, Kerria japonica 001 JPN, CC BY-SA 3.0, (3) おぉたむすねィく探検隊 , Kerria japonica in Tenryuji Garden, CC BY-SA 3.0, (4) Père Igor, Kerria japonica pleniflora (7), CC BY-SA 3.0, (5) Jebulon, Kerriaj3, CC BY-SA 3.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.