Astilbe Chocolate Shogun PP 26430 Spring ephemerals campanulatus) This little-known gem has

campanulatus) This little-known gem has green marbled fleshy petioles (eventually becoming quite bumpy) to 8' tall in cultivation

Alongside the foliage emerge 15" tall flowering stalks topped with a single white hood

root into the ground at their tips

Yucca 'Red Rover' is an exciting accidental discovery made when Yucca rostrata seedlings we obtained in the mid-1990s from a Southern Texas source turned out to be hybrids with Yucca rigida

one of the finest additions to the fall garden

Astilbe Chocolate Shogun PP 26430 Spring ephemerals campanulatus) This little-known gem hasWe were so excited, we almost wet our plants when we first saw Astilbe 'Chocolate Shogun' but, was the color really that good, and would it live for us? The answer to both is a resounding yes. Astilbe 'Chocolate Shogun' is a creation from Japanese plant breeder, Nagasaki Teruhisa, who selected it from a seed batch of Astilbe thunbergii. The 3' tall x 2' wide deciduous clump is clothed with dark purple, foliage, and topped in spring with blush pink