Ligularia

Imposing plants for a good and moisture-retentive soil. Herbaceous perennials, often with large leaves, attractively lobed, and sometimes coloured. Daisy-like flowers, orange to yellow, some in upright spikes, others in more flat-topped clusters. Some vigilance required to stop slugs and snails from damaging the emerging foliage.

As with all 'daisy-like' flowers, the disc-flowers in the centre of the flowerheads produce nectar and pollen that are attractive to insects. Whether the heads are in flat-topped clusters or spikes, they will cater for bees, hoverflies and butterflies in abundance.