Epimedium sempervirens Candy Hearts Plants from China it's the Bo Derek of

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field-grown plants

The clumps are topped with 28" tall scapes of large pale lavender flowers that attract hummingbirds in mid-September

What started as a stray seedling in the former New York (Seneca Hill Perennials) garden of Ellen Hornig took the gardening world by storm

Epimedium sempervirens Candy Hearts Plants from China it's the Bo Derek ofEpimedium sempervirens 'Candy Hearts' is a 2001 Darrell Probst introduction that forms a 10" tall x 2' wide, semi evergreen clump of dark green foliage that emerges rosy violet in late winter, morphs to green leaves with a violet edge, then finally changes to solid green. The clumps are topped, starting in early April (NC), with terminal clusters of light lavender flowers that just top the emerging foliage quite special in the early spring garden.