Saxifraga fortunei 'Black Ruby'

Saxifraga fortunei 'Black Ruby'

	A moderate sized cultivar with good red flowers and black leaves. I bought it from Pinsla Nursery in Cornwall. Their labels says: "Shade loving perennial, black leaves, rich pink flowers on wiry stems autumn, ht. 15cm." Writing in the Journal of the RHS in 2003, Bob Brown says: "Several cultivars have even more dramatic foliage, with wonderful colours, textures and shapes. The first of my personal favourites is 'Black Ruby'. This has scalloped, red-black, shiny leaves with deep red petioles. While it is flowering, between October and December, the intensity of colouring in the foliage fades a little, but the deep ruby-red flowers more than compensate."
8th November 2016


2nd November 2017	30th November 2017	11th October 2018

References:

Trees and Shrubs online, https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/salix/salix-cinerea/ , accessed 21.01.2025.

Brown, Bob - 'Saxifrages with longer-season appeal', The Garden, Journal of the RHS, Vol.128, Part.10 (2003)

McGregor, Malcolm - 'RHS trial of Saxifraga fortunei', The Plantsman, Vol.14, Part.4 (2015)

Tebbitt, Mark - 'The cultivated species of Saxifraga section Irregulares', The New Plantsman, Vol.6, Part.4 (1999)