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Shade Gardening: Tell me all about your Epimediums, 3 by Weerobin

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Weerobin wrote:
Rouge, for bold foliage, it's hard to beat epimedium wushanense.
The leaves are huge and leathery with jagged edges (first picture).
For me, one of the best features is that the deer & bunnies leave it alone.
And it's an excellent grower. I have a huge clump in just a few years.
You can see it's almost dwarfing my dwarf conifers next to it (and it's only a couple years old).
Flowers profusely, but I find the flowers to be about as coarse as the foliage,
so I consider it a foliage plant (2nd picture).
It's always expensive in catalogs, but for me a rewarding investment.
The 3rd picture is the only one I could find of epimedium lishihchenii foliage.