Epimedium sempervirens Candy Hearts Plants from China field-grown plants

field-grown plants

Most are spring bloomers and as such add much to the spring display in shade gardens

deciduous clump of stunning purple foliage with silver stripes along the vein lines and tips

originally shared in 2002 by our friend

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 field-grown plantsEpimedium 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.