Darmera

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Landscape Qualities

Umbrella Plant is a dense herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its wonderfully bold | coarse texture can be very effective in a balanced garden composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Umbrella Plant features subtle balls of shell pink star-shaped flowers with red eyes at the ends of the stems in early spring before the leaves. Its attractive enormous serrated round leaves are emerald green in color. As an added bonus | the foliage turns a gorgeous red in the fall.

Planting and Growing

Umbrella Plant will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity extending to 4 feet tall with the flowers | with a spread of 4 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It is quite adaptable | prefering to grow in average to wet conditions | and will even tolerate some standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This species is native to parts of North America.

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