Digging Dog Nursery perennials

Astrantia major
‘Hadspen Blood’
at Digging Dog

Astrantia

Masterwort

According to Smith’s Exotic Botany of 1805, “The more refined admirers of Nature” rate Astrantia among their favorite blossoms. The flowers bloom like tiny enchanting fireworks: a star burst of bracts surround the spray of small flowers and splashy groups of buds shoot out from branched stems like the finale on the Fourth of July.

If a natural look is what you’re after, plant Masterworts near a shady patio or path where you can enjoy their detail. This is an ideal flower for arrangements, fresh or dried.

Astrantia major ‘Hadspen Blood’ full sun  partial shade

Introduced by Nori Pope of the renowned Hadspen House in England, the flowers of ‘Hadspen Blood’ are one of the darkest of all the red cultivars. An abundance of deep carmine blooms shine like rubies before richly colored Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’.

Blooms mid-June–September.

Size: 2' high x 18" wide; hardy to zone 5.

Astrantia major Hadspen Blood (p-0825)
Each $8.00
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