Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrantia flowers. Many flowering plants, such as astrantia, self-seed, which means mother nature takes care of their dispersal ...

Saving seeds from existing plants growing in your garden is not only cheaper than buying them but often means they are much fresher and stronger than those found in packets. Collecting seeds can be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coneflowers grow alongside white Astrantia - mcajan/Shutterstock As summer starts to wind down, one of the first things many of us ...

Maybe it's an aging thing, this disenchantment with ostentatious beauty, but humbler flowers increasingly look better all the time. Handsome is precisely as handsome does, which is what makes ...

OF all the so-called "cottage garden" plants, the astrantia is one of the most endearing. But, like many of its fellows, it cannot truthfully trace its ancestry back to the cottage garden - and that ...

GINA PARKINSON feels a touch sentimental as talks up the astrantia. The astrantia is an attractive family of cottage garden plants providing long-lasting interest from as early as April and well into ...

Astrantia major or Ruby Wedding was introduced in 1986 in Oxfordshire, England at the garden of Phyllis Barwood. It was named in honour of her 40th Ruby Anniversary and what a distinction that must ...