Bring high style, delightful flowers, and extreme color and pattern to your garden and containers with Golden Feathers Jacob’s Ladder, Polemonium. It features striking green leaves with gold leaf margins. Its fascinating oval leaflets are arranged on its stems like the rungs of a ladder. Golden Feathers Jacob’s Ladder grows into a compact 14″ wide and 8-12″ tall mound. Lightly fragrant, delightful lavender-blue bell-shaped flowers with white stamens dangle above the foliage in late spring into early summer.

Jacob Ladder is ideal for a fern’s look, but even better than a fern, you get beautiful flowers, too! It works well in partially shaded areas of perennial borders, naturalized areas, or woodland gardens. We Love to use Jaco’s Ladder in mixed-shade containers; its colorful, unique foliage adds a fascinating element. Deer resistant.

Plant in rich soil in a shady location. Keep the plant well watered when establishing, when the plant is setting up buds and blooming, and during dry spells.