Purple Astilbes In Bloom - July 2023
Back in Spring of 2021, I planted some new (to me) bareroot purple Astilbes from Longfield Gardens after bringing them home from Costco - sort-of...on a whim. Where I put them (on the northside, under the large flowering pear) ended up being too crowded. Which lead me to attempting to dig some of them out and transplanting them last Fall . I dug out three of them and tucked them in behind the red-bloomed Fanal Astilbes on the southside. My thinking (then) was that if the Fanal Astilbes were happy here (and...from what I understand, Astilbes have a reputation for being finicky and hard to get established), the purple ones would like it over there, too. I pretty much forgot about them as the foliage is pretty similar to the Fanal variety, so before they bloomed, they all.looked.the.same. In the photo below, you can see the three Gloria Purpureas that are purple in color. The Fanal blooms are spent, but the purple blooms are just getting started. A nice sort-of sequential bloomi