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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woman digging in a raised garden bed in winter, preparing for spring. - Natalia Savilova/Shutterstock In the heart of winter, your yard may be draped in shades of gray and white, but January is the ...

WHAT: The Astrantia major Rubra, a masterwort, adds richness to the garden with its luminescent maroon blooms that fade to a silver white in the center. Each of blooms of this deciduous spreading ...

This reliable, easy-to-grow perennial with deeply lobed leaves produces long stems of pink flowerheads in summer. They may not be the focal point of the mixed border but they are a great supporting ...

What is it? A brooding, Victoria-plum-coloured version of a pretty cottage garden favourite. Hattie's pincushion is the oh-so-sweet and innocent common name for astrantia, most often found in pastel ...

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 ...

“The flowers of Artrantia Moulin Rouge are like nothing else in the garden. They’re dark red circles surrounded by nearly black bracks. These easy to grow compact growers bloom for lon gperiods and ...

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 ...

Planting summer flowers is the easiest way to brighten up your garden throughout the warm season, and there are plenty of vibrant blooms which can be dug into beds and borders right now. Tender ...