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n. - A genus of Eurasian herbaceous plants

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  • Thanks so much for the astrantia tip, I have never grown that plant but always admire them in the catalogs.
  • A good number of umbellifers are stable perennials and I use astrantia and eryngium on a regular basis, but Molopospermum peloponnesiacum is a new favourite.
  • When you weave a wood anemone, astrantia and a rudbeckia together, don't expect success as there is little overlap in flowering and the leaves are dull together.
  • Melica altissima, and umbels such as bupleurum, fennel, anthriscus, selinum, eryngium and astrantia can be cut and collected whole.
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