Echinacea Delicious Candy Epimedium (aka: Aster ericoides) Symphyotrichum 'Pink

(aka: Aster ericoides) Symphyotrichum 'Pink Star' is a Dutch selection of our North American native Symphyotrichum ericoides that has been one of the most superb asters in our garden trials

and backed with mauvy sepals

where the plant originated

which are nestled just atop the foliage in mid-April (NC)

Amsonias hybridize with other amsonias in the garden

Echinacea Delicious Candy Epimedium (aka: Aster ericoides) Symphyotrichum 'Pink(aka: Echinacea Noortdeli) Echinacea 'Delicious Candy' comes from our friend, Dutch plant breeder Marco van Noort, who touts his new coneflower as the best he's seen in the last half decade. Based on our trials, we concur. In the garden, it forms a small, compact clump, topped, starting for us in mid June (NC), with rigidly upright 18" tall stalks, ending in brilliant magenta flowers. Each flower is composed of a pompom like central cone atop a row of