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Astrantia major 'Shaggy' has striking, large flowers with green-tipped, pointed white bracts, held well clear of its mound of glossy green leaves. It combines well with rich, dark red astrantias such as 'Hadspen Blood' and 'Ruby Wedding'.
1 sie 2017 · It has everything it takes to please the home gardener: beautiful star-shaped flowers in an interesting range of colors, a long blooming period, attractive foliage, excellent cold hardiness, ease of cultivation, reasonable availability in nurseries, etc.
They come in shades of greenish-white, pink or maroon, depending on the cultivar, and are held in clusters at the top of straight stems (30-90cm/1-3ft tall), above clumps of deeply lobed foliage. Astrantias are hardy perennials, dying down in autumn, then reappearing in spring.
7 kwi 2020 · Astrantias are lovely flowers for shade – we've picked our 10 favourite cultivars to grow. Astrantias, also known as Hattie's pincushion or masterwort, are charming perennials with branched heads of neat pincushion flowers, surrounded by a ruff of greenish white bracts in summer.
7 maj 2021 · Astrantia (Astrantia major) is a group of flowers, also known as masterwort, that is both beautiful and unusual. This shade-loving perennial is not common to most gardens, but it should be. Let's take a look at the masterwort plant and how to care for Astrantia.
12 cze 2017 · Astrantias are star plants of our summer borders and they’ve been blooming happily in British gardens since Tudor times. Their pincushion heads of minute cream, pink and green flowers, surrounded by papery green-tipped bracts, were once collected from the wild for medicinal use.
masterwort 'Shaggy' An herbaceous perennial to 75cm, with deeply divided mid-green leaves and branched stems bearing compact heads of greenish-white flowers surrounded by narrow, green-tipped white or pinkish bracteoles
