General Info	Wildlife Value
Shade	Partial Shade
Area	Coastal Areas, Exposed Windy Areas, Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Good, Well Drained, Acidic, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Pink (Light), Pink (Medium)
Type	Pot Grown
Ornamental	Repeat Flowering
Flowering	May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep

Astrantia major Roma

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Astrantia major Roma: Masterwort Plants

A compact, dappled shade-tolerant perennial with attractive, mostly pink star-shaped, paper flower heads with a "pincushion"-like centre. Blooms from May through to September, and have a lovely mobility in the breeze adding a bit of wildflower-meadow style sheen to the garden. To 75cm tall.

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Features

AKA Greater Masterwort or Hattie's Pincushion
Pink and white "pincushion" compound flowers.
Flowering: May-Sept
Good for cutting & drying
Foliage: Deep green
To 75 x 50cm
Thrives in partial shade
Almost any soil, good beside water
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Growing Roma Masterwort

Astrantia thrive in sheltered borders with dappled shade: they only need a little sun to flower well. In the wild, they will grow near the coast in sheltered conditions and cool meadows near streams. They are happy on any well-drained soil enriched with humus.

Water well and allow to dry out after each watering - they do not like their roots sitting in water. Once established, they are fairly drought resistant.

Cut everything back in October after the last flowers fade in order to encourage new foliage. They are great self-seeders, so use deadheading as a "brake": when you want them to spread, don't deadhead! When they fill the space you have planned for them, prompt deadheading will keep them under control and encourage even more flowers.

In Your Garden Design

Classic Cottage Plants which are as brilliant in pots as they are in shady borders which make them fabulous companions for hostas, hellebores, ferns, foxgloves, geums and salvias. They are wonderful under small garden trees, especially fruit trees where they can be planted alongside comfrey and other shade-tolerant perennial plants.

Did You Know?

Medieval storytellers described flowers like Astrantia as "stars fallen to earth", and by Victorian times it picked up more common names like Melancholy Gentleman and Hattie's Pincushion.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) = £7.20 (inc VAT) per order.
Standard box (bareroot plants up to 1.2metres) = £11.40 (inc VAT) per order.
Large box (pots up to and including 7.5 litres) = £15.00 (inc VAT) per order.
Trees & hedging (bareroot plants and trees over 1.2 metres in height) = £19.80 (inc VAT) per order.
Orders delivered to Scotland and the Isle of Wight may incur a surcharge (calculated during checkout). This is applicable to ALL orders to these locations.
Pallets (for all orders of root balls, and large orders, a pallet price will be automatically applied at checkout) = £75.00 (inc VAT) per order.
If, for reasons of seasonality an order needs to be split, then we will charge for each delivery. If the whole order was eligible for free P&P then the second of the split orders will be delivered free of charge.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

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