Epimedium warleyense Ellen Willmott Scutellaria blue leaves with a distinctive

blue leaves with a distinctive wavy edge

the 1' tall x 2' wide clumps are topped with tremendous clusters of vivid raspberry-purple flowers

except for the fragrant yellow flowers that occur before the leaves emerge in spring

all carefully arranged between the thumb-sized green leaves

In very early spring the rosettes are topped by short

Epimedium warleyense Ellen Willmott Scutellaria blue leaves with a distinctiveEpimedium 'Ellen Willmott' is an easy to grow hybrid of Epimedium alpinum and E. pinnatum ssp. colchicum that occurred in the UK's Warley Place garden of the Miss Ellen Willmott. Most folks found Miss Willmott a hateful sort, who never liked to share, so this epimedium only began to make the rounds after she sent a piece to Professor William Stearn, who realized it was a hybrid and named it after Warley Place. Epimedium 'Ellen Willmott' makes a fast