Care of Epimediums
Channel: Murphy's Garden
Date: 03/03/2024

In late February/early march it’s time to cut back the epimediums.  They are great plants for difficult sites in dry shade and provide a mound of interesting leaf colours and shapes and in spring they have the sweetest, pretty little flowers that resemble orchids.  In this video  I discuss where to plant them and although they are very low maintenance a quick cut back now will keep them looking great.
Below is a list of some great varieties to try from Gardenersworld.com

* Epimedium 'Amber Queen' – produces a mass of amber-yellow coloured flowers from April to June
* Epimedium 'Pink Champagne' – a hybrid cultivar, with attractive bronze-red foliage and pink-red hanging flowers
* Epimedium stellulatum 'Wudang Star' – this was collected from the wild in China by Roy Lancaster in 1983. It produces low-growing clumps of leathery, spiny foliage. In mid- to late spring, white, star-shaped flowers appear above the foliage
* Epimedium x perralchicum – forming a large clump of glossy, heart-shaped deep green leaves, which are flushed bronze in spring and autumn, tiny pendent, bright yellow flowers appear on delicate wiry stems, from mid- to late-spring
* Epimedium x rubrum – with bronze young leaves, which darken to red-brown in autumn. In late spring tiny, crimson and pale yellow flowers appear on wiry stems

Also, check out Rosy Hardy Gardening, link below for great advice on which perennials to plant where.

https://youtube.com/@RosyHardyGardening?si=0y8w1X0SSO5vTwrR

This is the link to a video Rosy did on Epimediums in which she discusses three very nice ones; Epimedium x warleyense ‘Orangekonigin’, Epimedium x versicolour ‘Cupreum’ & Epimedium x versicolour ‘ Sulphreum’.

https://youtu.be/XDU4vjDXJA8?si=Lu1kXLsSiclFMu6B