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Lythrum salicaria

Anemone hybrida

Clematis heracleifolia

Helleborus orientalis

Alchemilla mollis

Sedum telephium

Anemone hybrida

Achillea millefolium

Helleborus orientalis

Helleborus orientalis

Lavandula angustifolia

Aster pringlei

Catananche caerulea

Echinacea purpurea

Knautia macedonica

Cephalaria gigantea

Papaver orientale

Omphalodes verna

Anemone hybrida

Anemone hybrida

Persicaria amplexicaulis

Aster ericoides

Anemone hupehensis

Panicum virgatum

Sedum spectabile

Astilbe arendsii

Anaphalis triplinervis

Helleborus orientalis

Echinacea hybrida
Astrantia Star of Love is a long-lived perennial that you will receive from us as a strong seedling ready directly for planting. It thrives best in semi-shade, but it will handle full sun without any problems if you provide it with more generous and frequent watering. The key to success is humous, well-draining, and loamy soil that can retain moisture well, but is not permanently waterlogged. Plant the seedlings at a distance of 35 to 45 centimeters, which corresponds to roughly seven to nine plants per square meter. This sufficient spacing is very important to ensure good air circulation.
During the summer, masterwort requires regular watering so the soil remains slightly moist. Customers very often ask us if this perennial can also be grown in containers. The good news is, yes! Choose a sufficiently spacious pot with drainage holes at the bottom and use a high-quality substrate rich in nutrients. When growing in a container, however, do not forget that the confined space dries out much faster than open ground in a flowerbed, so regular watering is an absolute necessity. To encourage healthy growth and abundant blooming, you can occasionally add a standard liquid fertilizer for flowering perennials to the watering during the season.
This variety grows to a height of 50 to 60 centimeters and forms very sturdy stems, so it needs no support even in windier places. It blooms from June to the end of August, and its burgundy flowers reliably attract bees and other pollinators from the surrounding area. During the season, we recommend continuously removing faded stems. This simple cut will save the plant energy and encourage it to form new buds. The flowers are wonderfully suited for cutting into a vase; you can dry them, and since they are not toxic, but actually edible, they will also serve as an original decoration for summer desserts. Regarding pest protection, pay attention primarily to the spring period, when slugs and snails like to attack the freshly sprouting young leaves.
With the arrival of autumn, the plant gradually dies back. You can cut off the dried leaves and stems just above the ground either late in the autumn or early in the spring before the plant begins to sprout again. Astrantia is extremely frost-resistant and easily tolerates temperatures dropping down to minus 34 degrees Celsius. In an open flowerbed, therefore, it needs absolutely no special winter protection. Only in the case of growing in a pot do we recommend wrapping the container with jute or non-woven fabric so that freezing from the sides does not damage the root ball.
The information given is based on our experience, please use it as a guide only. Times may vary depending on the season, climate, location, sowing and transplanting dates and possibly also the conditions in the greenhouse/greenhouse. We always recommend testing how the plant performs in your conditions. Please do not take this as a guarantee.
See how the seedling looks over the course of a year.



Astrantia major

Astrantia major

Astrantia major

Astrantia major

Alchemilla mollis

Achillea millefolium

Verbena bonariensis

Salvia nemorosa

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Gaura lindheimeri

Echinacea purpurea

Echinacea pallida

Eryngium planum

Echinacea purpurea

Calamintha nepeta

Salvia nemorosa

Rudbeckia fulgida

Gaura lindheimeri

Calamintha nepeta ssp. nepeta

Salvia nemorosa

Leucanthemum vulgare

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Achillea millefolium

Salvia nemorosa