Thanks.
Sorry, don't know much about bare-root plants, Connie.
Am lucky to be located relatively close to various garden centres and the like.
I have read on-line somebody talking about a bare-root purchased astrantia which did little after planting,
but reappeared, in-health, two years later.
Am sure you read about the prime growing conditions for astrantia (e.g. semi-shade and moist (but well-draining) organically rich soil).
Apparently different cultivars may be more or less tolerant to variations from these.
Astrantia can also be grown from seed and some of ours do self-seed (though they're certainly not invasive, at least here).
I should actually be questioning the identification of the astrantia pictured above, as 'Hadspen Blood' (one of the reddest of the astrantia cultivars).
Still 'Hadspen Blood' is a hybrid, apparently between two species, so perhaps variation could be expected.
Below 'Roma' planted in dappled light (today).
