Tricyrtis ‘Sinonome’

One of the most beautiful flowering perennials for the shade garden, Tricyrtis ‘Sinonome’, a toad lily, has been a popular cut flower in Japan for many years, and is now eager to grace your border and vases with its glorious blooms. Tricyrtis ‘Sinonome’ is easy to grow, very free-flowering, and long-lived, slowly spreading to fill in bare spots and create a large, lush planting that flowers in autumn.

This moisture loving toad lily sets slightly ribbed bright green leaves, up to 4 inches long, in symmetrical ladders on long, strong stems. These are topped with long, pointed violet buds in late summer, each opening to a wide-petaled 1-inch-wide flower of cream, burgundy, and white. Freckled, streaked, and washed with color, each flower is uniquely beautiful, and there are plenty of every stem of Tricyrtis ‘Sinonome’.

Expect Tricyrtis ‘Sinonome’ to reach 30 to 36 inches high in bloom, and to start out at about a foot wide, spreadin