Epimedium versicolor Cherry Tart Callirhoe Salvia guaranitica

Salvia guaranitica

This hardy garden fern has more abundant and brighter-colored markings than most ladies of the evening

re-sprouting in spring

although we also see several smaller flies hard at work during the flowering season

Epimedium versicolor Cherry Tart Callirhoe Salvia guaraniticaThis 1999 fairy wing introduction was discovered as a seedling in the garden of our friend and keen gardener, Judy Springer of Virginia. The short rhizomes of Epimedium 'Cherry Tart' form a slowly expanding clump, topped, starting for us in late March with 1' tall deer resistant foliage that emerges with an attractive burgundy flush. About the same time the flower spikes top the foliage with mauvy pink flowers, each highlighted with an inner red spur