‘Takilma Gold’ Oregon Sunshine is a Bright, Cheerful Native Perennial for Summer

Because we could all use a little more sunshine in our lives

Oregon sunshine is a widespread and vastly varying perennial in the Aster family . It ’s unremarkably easy to name by its silvery leaf with cobweb - like bloodless hairs and cheery yellow daisy flower . Found over a wide country in the westerly states and British Columbia , Oregon sunshine has 10 recognized botanic species , numerous natural hybrid , and a chromosomal soup of diploids and tetraploids within its rank . This free - love burst of genetics was surely the breathing in for the 1967 Cream call “ Sunshine of Your Love . ”

We most often run into Oregon sunshine as lowly prostrate mat in drier spot here in western Washington . Its favorite spots include the alpine zone of the Olympic Mountains and ocean - horizontal surface gay drop at Deception Pass Bridge on Whidbey Island . The latter is a morsel of a rubber hazard ; rather than watching the route as we labor by , we crane our neck to see the scattered plants lighting up the rock ledges with leafage or flowers .

The neat metal money is an splendid industrial plant for therock gardenrequesting good drain and fairly xeric condition . The cultivar ‘ Takilma Gold ’ , however , is veritable Oregon sunshine gone nova . This stellar plosion of a selection is from southerly Oregon and was inclose by horticulturist Sean Hogan , a cheerful bit of cheer himself . ‘ Takilma Gold ’ is a mega - robust mixture , very tolerant of moist , copious soils common to cultivated garden . In such condition , it will make an telling wide mound of silver grey - unripe folio , which become virtually smother by orotund - than - usual gold yellow flowers . We prefer to grow it in less voluptuous , dryer situation , as its rig and posture are improved , but we might be an outlier with that opinion .

Oregon sunshine is the complete plant life , because we could all use a little more sunshine in our life history . And it ’s always better to go big , so go with ‘ Takilma Gold ’ .

‘Takilma Gold’ Oregon sunshine

Eriophyllum lanatum‘Takilma Gold ’

Zones:5–9

Conditions : Full sun ; dry to moist , well - drained soil

aboriginal range : Western North America

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Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken grow some of the nerveless works on the planet at Far Reaches Farm Nursery and Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy in Port Townsend , Washington .

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