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Astrantia major ex 'Hadspen Blood' |
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| Common name |
great masterwort |
| Family |
apiaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z4-9) |
| Flowers |
sepia (early summer) |
| Size |
2-3' tall and wide |
| Light |
full sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
average soil; not too dry |
From seed  |
Give 1 month warm, then 6 weeks cold. Germination may start in fridge, or upon returning to room temperature
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Charming cottage garden flower. Sporadically reblooms until late in the season. 'Hadspen Blood' has red flowers, but offspring from my plants is a muted purple-pink, quite attractive.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: patio area About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| amaca@shaw.ca | Aug 06, 2008 | I saw this plant at Butchart Gardens in Victoria.
Where can you buy the plants or seeds?
Thank you.
Anne
I don't know of any particular source. Our astrantias have intermixed so much, I don't have any purebred specimens to collect seed from... |
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March 23, 2004
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