Hadspen Blood Masterwort

Other Names: Hattie's Pincushion

Ornamental Features:

Hadspen Blood Masterwort features airy cymes of ruby-red pincushion flowers with dark red bracts at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's deeply cut ferny palmate leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Hadspen Blood Masterwort is an open herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This perennial will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Self-Seeding

Hadspen Blood Masterwort is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Bog Gardens

Plant Characteristics:

Hadspen Blood Masterwort will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 32 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. It tends to be leggy, with a typical clearance of 1 feet from the ground, and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 15 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It is quite adaptable, prefering to grow in average to wet conditions, and will even tolerate some standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.