Eupatorium purpureum subsp. maculatum 'Gateway' - Joe-pye Weed from Quackin Grass Nursery

Eupatorium purpureum subsp. maculatum 'Gateway' (syn. E. maculatum 'Gateway') – ​Huge pink, domed flowers are a bee and butterfly draw from late summer into the autumn. Flowers set atop dark purple stems decorated with whorls of opposite green blades. Not a new plant but a really good one. And one that is perhaps not suited to the most refined of gardens though with the right vision and hands it could be made to happen in a respectable manner. It's all about vision. It is a plant very well suited to the full sun cottage garden, the semi-wild meadow garden, the perennial garden and the warm season grass garden in which other late blooming denizens might accompany – the perennial sunflowers, asters, ironweeds, goldenrods, etc., all of which are great bee and butterfly plants in their own right. Moisture retaining soil is important for the happiness of this terrific, tough perennial. Cutting or division grown.