Star Wars Garden Gnome Epimedium Bounces Back

Remember terminal month when the newly emerging Epimedium x perralchicum 'Frohnleiten' was eaten to the terra firma yesteryear unopen to plant eater (probably a rabbit)?

Well, it's fine now.

Epimedium x perralchicum 'Frohnleiten' has bounced dorsum in addition to looks non bad every bit usual. Here it is nestled amongst a 'Chicago Lustre' arrowwood viburnum (Viburnum dentatum) in addition to a boxwood.

I didn't run into most every bit many flowers this yr (presumably the bloom stems emerged early, got nibbled in addition to didn't bounce back), but the leafage looks proficient every bit usual.

(Next yr I'll exactly exit the sometime leafage standing. I did that terminal yr in addition to I mean value the sometime leafage protects the newly emerging stems. Eventually, the novel leafage obscures in addition to overtakes the older foliage, which exactly decays inwards place. Less operate in addition to a ameliorate outcome. That's my form of gardening! 😀)

I don't mean value the Epimedium has spread much this yr though. Like I said before, it's been a slooooow moving groundcover inwards my experience. That could endure proficient if you lot conduct maintain a pocket-size garden or exactly a pocket-size infinite to cover.

But if you're looking to comprehend a lot of ground, you lot mightiness take away to await elsewhere (like to Fragaria virginiana, the wild strawberry).