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How to Grow and Care for Water avens

Water avens, also known as Nodding avens, Drooping avens, Chocolate root, Indian chocolate

Water avens is a moisture-loving plant thriving in damp, shady environments, making it a suitable choice for waterside gardens or wetter areas. Key care points include ensuring consistent soil moisture without waterlogging and providing some shade to replicate its natural habitat. These considerations position water avens as an easy-care plant, ideal for gardeners looking to introduce a touch of wilderness to their shade gardens.

Watering schedule: Every week

Sunlight Requirements: Partial sun

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Planting and Growing Water avens

Water avens

Water avens

Water avens

Toughness	High
Care Level	Medium
Care Difficulty	Easy
Lifespan	Perennial
Watering Schedule	Every week
Sunlight Requirements	Partial sun
Soil Type	Garden Soil
Soil pH	6-7
Planting Time	Spring
Hardiness Zones	3-7

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Varieties of Water avens

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Purple avens 'Leonard's Variety'

The purple avens 'Leonard's Variety' is a more compact form of the water avens, forming clumps as it grows, with semidouble flowers that are a copper-pink in color and that flare out as they bloom. This cultivar was created for its appearance, size, and for its long flowering period. This last factor makes it appreciated in gardens with cool, damp areas where other plants struggle to last.

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Avens 'Cosmopolitan'

With semi-double flowers that boast creamy petals tinged with a soft blush pink, avens 'Cosmopolitan' presents an enchanting display from late spring to early summer. The blossoms sit atop slender, wiry stems, rising from a low mound of dark green, lobed leaves. Thriving in temperate garden environments, avens 'Cosmopolitan' flourishes in well-drained soil and partial to full sun, attracting pollinators while resisting deer.

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Avens 'Fire Storm'

Avens 'Fire Storm' is an improved version of the Avens (Geum spp.) cultivar known as 'Fireball.' It was bred to produce even more flowers than its parent plant — it blooms profusely for several months, creating a flame-like mass of bright orange-red flowers, hence the provocative cultivar name.

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Avens 'Mai Tai'

Avens 'Mai Tai' is an avens (Geum spp.) cultivar selected for its attractive flowers whose varying colors can be compared to the Mai Tai drink. The semi-double flowers open vermilion, but they eventually fade to attractive shades of apricot, peach, or pink. The cultivar blooms for three weeks during the late spring and early summer, producing masses of blossoms at once.

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