Epimediums make superb though expensive groundcovers. This is the most suitable. Its rhizomes spread relatively quickly, and the pale lem...Read Moreon flowers are produced more profusely than with all but a few. [HYPERLINK@www.chicagobotanic.org]
Epimediums are great garden plants. They are tough and adaptable, tolerating full sun here and also even dry shade, though they do best in moist, fertile, well-drained soil in light shade. They are unattractive to deer, with no significant pests or diseases, and have beautiful dense weed-smothering foliage tinged with red in spring and again in autumn.
This is an "evergreen" epimedium: The foliage does not abscise in the fall, but it doesn't make it though our winters intact. It's best to cut back the tattered remnants to ground level in late winter before the flower scapes begin to rise. Use hedge clippers or a lawnmower for a large expanse.
Epimediums make superb though expensive groundcovers. This is the most suitable. Its rhizomes spread relatively quickly, and the pale lem...Read More