Erythronium dens-canis Lilac Wonder (Dogs Tooth Violet)

Award-winning Erythronium dens-canis 'Lilac Wonder' (Dog's Tooth Violet) is a charming perennial boasting elegant, nodding, lilac-pink flowers, one per stem, in mid-late spring. Each blossom features gracefully recurved, pointed petals adorned with contrasting chocolate brown markings in the throat. They rise well above the basal foliage of mid-green, elliptic leaves, copiously marbled with purple-brown. Lovely in groups under deciduous trees, in rock gardens, or near ponds and streams where it will happily multiply.

• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society
• Grows in clumps up to 4-6 in. tall (10-15 cm). This beauty naturalizes quite easily in the shade garden.
• Easily grown in humus-rich, well-drained soils in part shade. Needs moist soil, even when dormant, do not let the soil dry out!
• Stunning in beds and borders, rock gardens, underplanting shrubs or roses, cottage gardens, or in prairies. Because it goes dormant after blooming, interplant with late emerging perennials to fill in the open space (bleeding heart, columbine, and hostas).
• Virtually disease free. Watch for slugs. Deer resistant.
• To be planted in fall. Propagate by division after flowering.