Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Gazing at Amsonia hubrichtii in its full autumn colour is like staring into the heart of a fire – not, in spite of appearances, an actual ‘burning bush’ (that honour goes to Euonymus alatus, the winged spindle), rather a herbaceous perennial whose stems can be cut back to the ground before the first signs of growth in early spring. Known as Hubricht’s blue star, the leaves are much narrower and more needle-like than those of near relative Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia, both plants flowering with miniature constellations of a most unusual steely blue in mid to late spring.
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