London Pride - None-so-Pretty

Saxifraga x urbium  

saxifrages are perennials forming rosettes of evergreen leaves, with leafless stems bearing panicles of small, 5-petalled flowers

This very plant was in my Grandad Zhenders garden in Milnrow, Lancashire, England, I remember his meticulously kept garden, with beautiful flowers and neat straight paths bordered with London Pride, that was 45 years ago and the plant is still healthy and so very pretty. It has traveled across the border to my house in Yorkshire and happily set up home in my garden.  All by just detaching a rosette and pushing into soil, it has stayed with me for the last 25 years.  So easy to look after - and so pretty.

Saxifraga x urbium - London Pride - None so Pretty

Easy to grow in any type of soil or situation but ideal for deep or partial shade

Propagate by division in spring or detach rosettes and root in late spring to early summer

Suggested planting locations and garden types

Flower borders and beds Garden Edging Ground Cover Underplanting of Roses and Shrubs Cottage & Informal Garden City & Courtyard Gardens

How to care
Pruning
Cut off flower stems after flowering

Pests
May be attacked by vine weevil

Diseases
Generally disease free

Genus
Saxifraga can be annuals, biennials, evergreen or herbaceous perennials, mostly mat-forming in habit, with simple or palmately lobed leaves and starry or rounded flowers which may be solitary of in panicles or cymes

Species
Saxifraga urbium is an evergreen perennial to 30cm in height, forming wide mats of rosettes of spoon-shaped, long-stalked leaves with scalloped margins. Small pink-flushed white flowers are borne in lax panicles from early summer

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