Hepatica maxima Aster In the late summer garden

In the late summer garden

bizarrely wonderful

Cultivars are available from spring blooming ones to ones that bloom into late summer and even early fall

more solid toward the center and speckled toward the edge

Hepatica maxima Aster In the late summer gardenWe are thrilled to finally be able to offer one of the rarest of the hepatica species an endemic only to Ullung Island, east of Korea. I was fortunate to climb to the top of the island in 1997, to see these magnificent specimens growing in dense shade under tree size camellias. When mature, each clump can reach 1' in width with glossy olive green leaves w purple undersides. In spring, the giant clumps, which emerge covered with silvery white hair, are