Trial: Perennial
Years Trialed: 2002, 2003Good Qualities
Year 1
Bright variegated foliage (2); Very impressive; Maybe good for bouquet work, good grower; Beautiful plants.Year 2
Striking variegated foliage (3); Very prolific, out competed weeds; My customers bought it for the foliage, not the flower, it did very well and grew more this summer, it took the heat of summer very well; Vigorous, large flower size.Problems
Year 1
Too short (4), hopefully taller in year 2; Flower seems insignificant.Year 2
Brown spots on leaves (2); Yellow flowers get lost with foliage; I didn’t cut it, plants grew well but flowers seemed insignificant, maybe good foliage stems; We used it as foliage because the blooms shed pretty quickly for us, the foliage held up well even in oasis; Needs to be staked, needs to be grown under 50% shade, leaf margins easily burned by direct sunlight, should be lifted and divided after two years to keep stem caliper size strong.Year 2
Similar to Lysimachia punctata; Poor customer appreciation; I am going to move some of it into some part shade to see if it will stretch out and maybe do even better; Best grown for foliage and cut before flowers, flowers do not add much, with the yellow blooms easily shattering in vase.Trial Data
Year 1
| Plants flowering (%) | Plants dead at end of summer (%) | Yield (stems/plant) | Stem Length (inches) | Market Appreciation Rating¹ | Repeat Again Rating¹ | Ease of Cultivation Rating¹ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale | Retail | Consumer | |||||||
| Average | 36.7 | 29.3 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| Range of Responses | 0-100 | 0-100 | - | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3-5 | 4-5 |
¹1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Year 2
| Yield (stems/plant)¹ | Stem Length (inches)¹ | Market Appreciation Rating² | Repeat Again Rating² | Ease of Cultivation Rating² | Average Spacing (in2) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale | Retail | Consumer | ||||||
| Average | 99 | 17.1 | 23 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| Range of Responses | 95-100 | 10-26 | 14-36 | 4 | 4-5 | 2-4 | 1-5 | 5 |
¹Data shown are from those respondents who harvested stems. Some respondents may not have harvested stems because they were too short. Flowering stems may be longer next year after plants are established. See comments section for more details.
²1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Comments
Year 1
This is a variegated sport of Lysimachia puntata; puntata suffer from petal shattering without postharvest silver; Not sure if yellow flower will be accepted with foliage; Foliage may make this interesting as a cut but...