Plant Description:

This perennial, which remains evergreen in warmer regions, grows from rhizomes and forms clumps with shiny, arrowhead leaves reaching up to 45cm in length. From late spring through midsummer, it produces a series of striking flowers, up to 15cm long, featuring soft pink spathes encircling a yellow spadix. It thrives in consistently damp conditions, ideal for bog gardens or the edges of ponds.

All our plants are grown with care in the UK by a family-run nursery. At Champion Plants, we focus on offering plants that are beautiful, durable, and UK-grown in peat-free compost.

Features of Zantedeschia aethiopica ‘Marshmallow’:

• Height:Easily maintained to 1m
• Spread:Easily maintained to 50cm
• Foliage Colour:Green
• Flower Colour:Pink with a yellow center
• Flowering Season:Spring to summer
• Soil Type:Moist, poorly drained, loam, clay
• Position:Full Sun – partial shade
• Hardiness:Fully Hardy once established, H4 (-5 and below)
• Type: Herbaceous Perennial

The hardy forms ofZantedechiaare varieties that derive from the speciesZantedechia aethiopicaandZantedechia pentlandii, these are mainly white flowered varieties sometimes having coloured throats likeZantedechia aethiopica Kiwi Blush.Zantedechia pentlandiiis striking in having bright yellow flowers.

All the Zantedechia we grow here are the hardy forms. To ensure these plants thrive in your garden it is best to plant them in moist soil in semi-shade, bright sun can slow their growth and scorch the leaves. Also in mild winters these perennials can be evergreen and put on growth through winter, in this scenario a sharp frost will kill these fresh shoots of the top growth but will not harm the plant, it will just re-shoot from the root in spring. A good mulch over winter greatly helps the plant too by insulating the shoots just below the soil from frost and ensuring a good strong root base from which masses of shoots will appear in the spring.

These plants can also be grown in containers and for this they will respond best to a loam based compost, they don’t want to be planted too deep and respond well to regular feeding. When grown in pots the plants should be protected over winter as the root is above the ground (in the pot) and can be damaged by frost. The containers should be watered regularly and the compost should be kept moist at all times. These plants grow well in the UK, we have them here on our nursery in the South West of England but with a bit of protection (fleece in extreme conditions, mulch or moving containers into a greenhouse) they can be grown all over the UK.