Epimedium Dark Beauty

Harold Epstein admired this plant for its velvety deep chocolate-purple new spring foliage.

Epimedium dark beauty. April May 14. Featuring dark purple new growth on red stems makes it an early eye catcher. The richly colored early spring foliage of Epimedium grandiflorum Dark Beauty is deep bronzy purple and lightens to green as the season progresses.

Feb 16 2014 - Explore Sandy Svobs board Epimediums on Pinterest. It is thought to be a cross between Epimedium Yubae and Epimedium Silver Queen both cultivars of. It appeared as a seedling in his garden from an 12.

6 to 8 Zones 5-9. Karen Perkins has since 2009 owned Garden Visions Epimediums a small retail mail-order nursery located in rural central Massachusetts and founded in 1997 by Darrell Probst. Epimedium grandiflorum Dark Beauty Epimedium grandiflorum var.

Until then there was only one Epimedium known and that was a rather unremarkable small-flowered species E. Violaceum Bronze Maiden Epimedium lishihchenii USDA 4-9 Epimedium myrianthum Mottled Madness Epimedium pubescens USDA 6-9 Epimedium x. Epimedium acuminatum flowers with 18 long arching spikes each adorned with up to 50 large flowers composed of long dark purple spurs highlighted by pale lavender inner sepals.

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Epimedium grandiflorum Dark Beauty. Epimedium grandiflorum Dark Beauty P-2139 Each 1200 A chance seedling discovered by the late Harold Epstein in his esteemed New York garden Dark Beautys new spring growth entertains a commanding medley of cocoa wine and damson hues beneath large white-spurred deep rosy-pink flowers on wire-thin stems. Its large flowers have beautiful dark rose inner-sepals and white petalsspurs flushed with rose.