@bumplbea Wow sorry to hear about your tree. I ? have one I'm trying to bring back but I thought it was a graph. Either way...I'm still trying to save it. It died all the way back when we hard a crazy winter that killed lots of tops on bushes and small trees. If they couldn't come back from roots they were lost. But it does grow, it just needs the right spot. I hope I found it this year.
Oh how excited I'd be if I had photos to share.... sadly I don't at the time. I have a few older ones which I do not know the names of, but I do have a Festiva Maximus from a friend who has passed and the first one I bought was a Novelty form, Daisy Coronet (I thought I had a photo of that, I'll have to look). 2 years ago I bought a red charm.
I was on an epimedium binge during covid and bought like...24'ish different ones of those.
This year I bought peony.
Itoh Morning Lilac
Itoh Bartzilla
2 Top Brass
Nightlife aka Black Beauty
and a Fernleaf.
Then I found out they bloom at different times and really got excited... I want them to do well. It should look fantastic.