Erythronium Kondo (Dog Tooth Violet)

Erythronium 'Kondo' (Dog Tooth Violet) is a vigorous perennial boasting up to 7 nodding, pale yellow flowers per stem in mid-late spring. Each blossom features elegantly recurved, pointed petals and deep yellow anthers. They rise well above the basal foliage of glossy, pale green, elliptic leaves, softly marbled with bronze. Lovely in groups under deciduous trees, in rock gardens or near ponds and streams where it will happily multiply.

• Grows in clumps up to 8-12 in. tall and wide (20-30 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.