Astrantia 'Star of Passion' 2/3L Steel Garden Furniture blue flowers above strap-like green

blue flowers above strap-like green leaves

Occasionally the plant may have another flush of flowers in summer before forming fluffy seedheads

reminiscent of hollyhocks

persistent finish

Rosa Silas Marner's buds are borne on red-tinged stems and unfurl into shallow pale pink cup-shape blooms with button eyes

Astrantia 'Star of Passion' 2/3L Steel Garden Furniture blue flowers above strap-like greenA new variety of a much loved perennial, and stalwart of the cottage garden, Astrantia major 'Star of Passion', is a clump forming deciduous plant with handsome deeply cut foliage. From late spring, well into summer, pincushion like umbels of starry flowers enclosed in deep maroon bracts are held high above the foliage on strong, fine stems.