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Leaves are lobed, divided into leaflets and can be spiny, or ovate and finely pointed, heart to arrow shape.
Leaves have attractive markings, mainly around the edges fading towards the centre, which change colour through the growing season.
Flowers are tiny, almost insignificant and spurred which can be short or long and are borne on open racemes.
Smaller types are excellent for ground cover in rock gardens and most shaded areas.
Essential info
Genus: Epimedium
Family: Berberidaceae
Species: E. grandiflorum
Common Names: Bishop's hat, barrenwort.
Classification: Perennial.
Height: 30cm (12inches).
Flowering: From spring through to end of summer.
Where to plant info
These are very popular gardening plants used in many planting schemes. They mix especially well with most other border and bedding plants.
Where: You can them for ground cover in herbaceous borders and in general beds.
Grow them in any woodland garden setting and you will have a dramatic effect.
Site: Grow them in a shady site away from strong sunlight. Woodland dabbled shade is perfect.
Soil: Any rich, moist and free draining soil.
If you have heavy clay soil dig in plenty of horticultural grit and well rotted manure to improve drainage and improve the structure of your soil.
Propagation info:
By seed in late summer.
You must sow these seeds as soon as they have been collected.
Otherweise germination rate will be extremly low, or worse still absolute zero.
Sow seeds in pots or trays and place in a cold frame to germinate.
Time from sowing to germination: 2 - 4 weeks.
By division in autumn or spring.
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