Astilbe Chinensis Visions In Red Roots (2)

Introduce vibrant color and elegant texture to your shade garden with Astilbe chinensis 'Visions in Red.' This award-winning Astilbe variety is celebrated for its deep coloration, sturdy habit, and reliable performance in low-light areas.  

🌹 Key Features

Deep Red-Violet Plumes: Produces dense, upright, pyramidal plumes of intense red to dark magenta flowers. The color is deep and saturated, providing a bold visual impact in mid-summer.

Unique Foliage & Stems: Even the foliage and flower stems are highly ornamental, emerging with a burgundy or reddish tint, maintaining interest before and after the bloom period.

Compact & Sturdy Habit: Forms a dense, uniform clump, reaching a manageable height of 18-24 inches with a similar spread. Its stiff, upright stems rarely flop, maintaining a tidy appearance.

Textural Beauty: Features attractive, finely dissected, deep green, fern-like foliage that adds wonderful texture and contrast to hostas and other shade perennials.  

Pollinator Attraction: The fuzzy plumes attract butterflies and beneficial insects, though they are generally deer and rabbit resistant.  

🌲 Planting & Care

Shade Lover: Thrives in Partial to Full Shade (protect from harsh afternoon sun).  

Hardiness: Excellent cold tolerance, suitable for USDA Zones 3-8.  

Moisture Essential: Prefers consistently moist, rich, organic soil. Astilbe are not drought tolerant—do not let the soil dry out completely!  

Low Maintenance: Easy to grow and long-lived once established. Deadhead after blooming for a tidier look, or leave the spent plumes for attractive winter texture.  

💡 Versatile Uses

Perfect for woodland gardens, shade borders, and mass plantings under trees.  

Excellent choice for containers on shady patios or balconies.

Ideal near ponds or water features where the soil stays reliably damp.  

The dried flower heads offer great winter interest.  

You'll receive 2 roots ready for planting. 

Spring Shipments being in April.