Pot Size: 1 litre Price: £15.00 Description: A striking Chinese perennial when seen in its spring colour on this cultivar, emerging in March-April for us. With very dark hues, both to its foliage and upright rather robust dark purple stems to as tall as 70cm when happy. Bearing in its upper parts a whirl of 4 broad sessile serrated somewhat glossy foliage to 20cm long. Soon topped by a curious upright stem with 2-4 pendant spikes 10-15cm long of small white scented flowers, which slowly transpose to fleshy seed over the summer months. Best growing in a humus-rich moisture retentive well draining soil in full to partial shade.
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