Astilbe, Mighty® Chocolate Cherry

(P.P. 27,676) The most colorful perennials for shade. These easy care plants display colorful masses of feathery spikes for weeks, usually beginning in midsummer. Their attractive ferny foliage ranges from blue-green to bronze-green tones. Plant in soil that is rich, moist and well-drained. Also called False Spirea or Feather Flowers. Velvet Red - Magnificent color for the shade garden. Another huge Astilbe similar to 'Mighty Pip'. Beginning in late summer when many other Astilbes are waning, it produces towering, feathery velvety red flower plumes up to 4 feet high. Reddish brown highlights adorn the dark green, ferny foliage which forms large, impressive mounds. Excellent for cut flowers, containers and the back of the perennial border.