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Astilbe 'Amethyst'



8th July 2012


After many years of growing it I seem to have lost my plant. I have rummaged around under shrubs and behind bushes hoping to find a straggling stem or two but so far nothing.
One quiet day I will be digging around under a tree and I will turn up a knobbly wooden tump and pounce on it with glee. I will plant it in the border and it will sprout into the lost 'Amethyst'. Astilbe are resilient things.
In the meantime I have bought another.

21st July 2016


Raised by Georg Arends in Germany in 1920, it was given an Award of Merit by the RHS after trial in 1971.