Epimedium 'Pink Champagne' - BARRENWORT 'PINK CHAMPAGNE'
Clump forming barrenwort with dark raspberry centers, pink spurs and purple mottled leaves. Excellent hosta companion.
Vigorous, but slowlier growing to 18-24" tall x 24-36" wide clumps of evergreen (in milder climate) to semi-evergreen leaves. Long-lived and tough plant with, but usually slower to grow and slower to establish.
Flowers in mid to late spring. Dense groundcovering mounds.
Half shade, dappled shade, light shade to deep shade. Average soil with some organic matter, average moisture (medium-moist or medium) to medium-dry. Soil should be slightly acidic to neutral.
Tolerates drier shade and black walnuts.
Deer and rabbits avoid it.
Hardy in zones 5 to 8.
Best is shade or half shade flower beds, woodland gardens, woodland edges, in front of shrubs, under canopy of trees, planted among tree roots in root zone.
Good combos are with other shade tolerant perennials like Asarum, Bergenia, Brunnera, Caulophyllum, Chrysogonum, Dicentra, Geranium, Hosta, Iris cristata, I. tectorum, Kirengoshoma, Omphalodes, Polemonium, Phlox stolonifera, Phlox divaricata, Primula, Polygonatum, Pulmonaria, Stylophorum, Thalictrum, Tricyrtis, Waldsteinia and spring ephemerals like Claytonia, Mertensia, Jeffersonia, Podophyllum, Uvullaria, Trillium and grasses like Carex, Calamagrostis or Hakonechloa.
Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
Picture copyright : Walters Gardens
Epimedium 'Pink Champagne' - BARRENWORT 'PINK CHAMPAGNE'
Clump forming barrenwort with dark raspberry centers, pink spurs and purple mottled leaves. Excellent hosta companion.
Vigorous, but slowlier growing to 18-24" tall x 24-36" wide clumps of evergreen (in milder climate) to semi-evergreen leaves. Long-lived and tough plant with, but usually slower to grow and slower to establish.
Flowers in mid to late spring. Dense groundcovering mounds.
Half shade, dappled shade, light shade to deep shade. Average soil with some organic matter, average moisture (medium-moist or medium) to medium-dry. Soil should be slightly acidic to neutral.
Tolerates drier shade and black walnuts.
Deer and rabbits avoid it.
Hardy in zones 5 to 8.
Best is shade or half shade flower beds, woodland gardens, woodland edges, in front of shrubs, under canopy of trees, planted among tree roots in root zone.
Good combos are with other shade tolerant perennials like Asarum, Bergenia, Brunnera, Caulophyllum, Chrysogonum, Dicentra, Geranium, Hosta, Iris cristata, I. tectorum, Kirengoshoma, Omphalodes, Polemonium, Phlox stolonifera, Phlox divaricata, Primula, Polygonatum, Pulmonaria, Stylophorum, Thalictrum, Tricyrtis, Waldsteinia and spring ephemerals like Claytonia, Mertensia, Jeffersonia, Podophyllum, Uvullaria, Trillium and grasses like Carex, Calamagrostis or Hakonechloa.
Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
Picture copyright : Walters Gardens