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Lychnis coronaria 'Angel's Blush'

An easy care long-bloomer with beautiful flowers and foliage. Mine is growing in part sun and evenly moist good soil. It is eversilver in this climate, so adds interest to the border even in the winter. Super easy to start from seed.

Atlanta - I planted two rose campions - about quart size pots, see this year's photo - a year ago and they are huge! I will need to divide and replant this fall. My magenta campions are not so thick. Full sun in Atlanta bleaches the flowers (of the rose variety) out to more white than pink. Very pretty flower, blooms a long time and the foliage is a nice contrasting color when not in bloom.

If you don't divide campions, they will rot and die. At least this is true for mine! Also, when they finish blooming, you can cut the flower stalk back and take pieces of it - cut a couple of inches below each leaf pair (on the stalk) and just stick it directly the ground for more plants. Each stalk will give you 3 or 4 cuttings, but you want the stiffer pieces.

Added July 8, 2005: see the pix I just added. This is from above described leaf cutting. Look at the new center growth. I put the cuttings in a more shaded place for the "nursery" and will move them in the fall. This plant will bloom next spring.

This is a beautiful, easy plant. It grows tucked next to the walkway getting pretty good, but not complete sun.

It always stays perky and happy despite how much or how little water it gets. It also forms a nice sized clump.

It stayed evergreen in my zone 7b. The leaves have a dusky, silvery tone and are fuzzy to the touch.

Mine is a second year plant but I haven't had any flowers yet. Will post more when that happens.

This is an easy plant and very tolerent of poor soils. It seems to thrive in my hot, sun-baked clay out front. The larger plants die out but the seedlings are so abundant there's always plenty to take their place.

The amount of "blush" on the blooms can vary. In hot dry weather it's very pale to completely white. Under ideal conditions the pink is darker and will fade as the bloom ages.