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Growing Goatsbeard
If you can kill this one, you might want to consider silk flowers. The details are below.
How To Grow Goatsbeard
Grow in full sun to part shade. Put it anywhere you like except in the deep shade under evergreens.
Give it dryish soil or dampish soil. It will thrive. It does prefer a slightly drier soil over the winter so clay soils can be killers depending on the season and the soil.
Feed it or ignore it. It will grow.
Having said all that, if you want to see great growth rates and a massive plant, give it a well-drained soil that is high in organic matter. In other words, give it good soil and give it a shovel of compost every spring.
Note that this plant gets taller every year. It starts short and each year it gets bigger around and grows taller. It should reach mature height (3 feet) at year three.
Propagation
Do this one by division. In the spring or fall.
Note that this has a monster root and is well anchored. The only time I ever broke an "unbreakable" shovel handle was working on a very old, mature clump of this plant.
Hardiness
USDA zone 3 with no difficulty at all in USDA 4.
Maintenance
Not much. Cut the flower stems off after they finish blooming and turn ugly-brown. Cut them as far down as you can until you hit leaves.
In the fall after the leaves have been wrecked by frost, cut the dead foliage off and compost it.
That's it.
Following these simple rules should ensure you have success growing goatsbeard.
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