Its name means “morning sun” in Japanese, but you will enjoy long, full days of glowing yellow-gold sunshine from these lovely double blooms! Absolutely tops for cutting, the blooms last for up to 2 weeks in the vase, and this densely-branched variety offers so many of them that you’ll always have plenty left to keep the butterflies and bees busy in the garden, too. A delightful perennial for a wide range of climates and soil types, ‘Asahi’ may just become your go-to plant for big bouquets and dependable garden color.

The flowers begin in early summer, as soon as the weather turns warm. A sun-lover, ‘Asahi’ doesn’t mind even unseasonable heat and humidity, and once established in your garden is happy to tough out periods of drought. Its well-branched flowering stems set masses and masses of unusually large blooms with double (or more) the usual number of petals. Instead of the daisy look common to Heliopsis, these are pompons, frilly a