Epimedium sempervirens Candy Hearts Plants from China The clumps are topped with

The clumps are topped with 28" tall scapes of large pale lavender flowers that attract hummingbirds in mid-September

woody perennial (shrub) to 5' tall x 7' wide in 5 years

deciduous clump of stunning purple foliage with silver stripes along the vein lines and tips

it's the Bo Derek of the red hot pokers

(aka: Typhonium giganteum) Sauromatum giganteum is a little-known Chinese (Tibet to Manchuria) hardy aroid that is a must for collectors of the weird and wonderful

Epimedium sempervirens Candy Hearts Plants from China The clumps are topped withEpimedium sempervirens 'Candy Hearts' is a 2001 Darrell Probst introduction that forms a 10" tall x 2' wide, semi evergreen clump of dark green foliage that emerges rosy violet in late winter, morphs to green leaves with a violet edge, then finally changes to solid green. The clumps are topped, starting in early April (NC), with terminal clusters of light lavender flowers that just top the emerging foliage quite special in the early spring garden.