Astrantia
Masterwort
According to Smith’s Exotic Botany of 1805, “The more refined admirers of Nature” rate Astrantia among their favorite blossoms. The flowers resemble tiny enchanting fireworks: a starburst of bracts surround the spray of small blooms and splashy groups of buds shoot out from branched stems like the finale on the 4th of July. If a natural look is what you’re after, plant Masterworts near a lightly shaded patio or path where you can enjoy their detail. This is an ideal cut flower, fresh or dried.
Once dubbed Plant of the Week and described as “a brooding, Victoria-plum-colored version of a cottage garden favorite” by British Guardian columnist Lia Leendertz, ′Venice′ unleashes ravishing pollinator-friendly wine-red umbels. Garbed with glistening green leaves that are palmately-hewn into attractive toothed lobes, the sturdy upright stems elevate copious, pincushion-like florets lodged atop a decorative ruff of persistent, pointed reddish purple bracts. This medium-sized perennial can be added to cut creations, sun-dappled borders, beds under trees, natural-style gardens and stream banks, where it detests root disturbance, craves adequate moisture and makes a dynamic statement amid acid-yellow blooming Euphorbias or Alchemilla.
Blooms mid-June–September
Size: 18" – 2' 0" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Astrantia ‘Burgundy Manor’
- Astrantia major ‘Buckland’
- Astrantia major ‘Canneman’
- Astrantia major ‘Claret’
- Astrantia major ‘Hadspen Blood’
- Astrantia major ‘Lars’
- Astrantia major ‘Madeleine Van Bennekom’
- Astrantia major ‘Midnight Owl’
- Astrantia major ‘Pink Pride’
- Astrantia major ‘Roma’
- Astrantia major ‘Ruby Wedding’
- Astrantia major ssp. involucrata ‘Shaggy’
- Astrantia major ‘Snow Star’
- Astrantia major ‘White Giant’
- Astrantia major ‘Moulin Rouge’
