Yep, I love them too.I have grown a lot of umbellifers this year so the next coupla years should be interesting. You really should keep an eye open for angelica 'Ebony' or Vicar's Mead, as well as some of the dark leaved anthriscus such as Ravenswing or Dial Park. Or some of the pinker flkowered bloomers such as pimpinella and chaerophylum. If you are OK trying seeds, I think Special Plants sells to Canada (she has a really good selection of umbels)...or if not, Jelitto seeds too. These are easy plants to get going, needing an autumn planting and a winter in the garden to stratify, then it's plain sailing.

I know @rosaprimula that you are a big fan of umbellifers...great minds think alike ;).

I do have "Vicar's Mead" that appear each year but I dont find the flower as impressive as our Angelica.

Thanks for the other suggestions. I would have to get the seeds and that's ok (no way anymore would I be able to find any of them as established plants. Do you think you could find them at nurseries in your neck of the woods?).

rouge they are spectacular! This is a plant that for some reason isn't really on my radar. I guess you don't see it offered much and so I never think about it as an option. I love the bloom form and the dark stems! However NOT thrilled about attracting wasps lol. Got stung multiple times last season by a disturbed ground nest so I am very put off wasps and hornets! I know they are out there but not sure I want to plant something that attracts just them. Although if I plant it they will come - and stay thre so I know where they are haha!

I will keep this in mind when I look through my seed catalogs in fall. Did you direct sow yours? (I guess I am assuming you started these particular ones from seed!)

:)

Dee

No good to uou Rouge but Annies Annuals sells angelicas. very fun, goofy

and light hearted gardening with Annie.

Roseprimula her style of gardening is right up your alley. and because it is SUNNY temperate CA there are many plants the rest of us can only dream about

Did you direct sow yours?

You are correct @diggerdee zone 6 CT. I had bought the 'parent' plant several years ago and each late Fall I collect the seeds and direct sow them where I would like them to arise the next spring (and hopefully flower the year after.)

You really should keep an eye open for angelica 'Ebony' or Vicar's Mead

@rosaprimula UK (Cambridge) Z8/9, here is the sole VM for this season (I see some of them in their first year nearby as small plants, good to go for next year, assuming I dont keep stepping on them.)

(I did at one time plant an Ebony White but I dont think I ever had its offspring in subsequent years :( )

I am loving the pinker flowers but find that angelicas are more demanding of moisture than I am comfortable with. Same with chaerophylum and pimpinella, so I was thrilled to hear about a pink flowered hogweed, which does much better in my drier soil - heracleum spondylium 'Pink Cloud', as well as seseli hippomaranthum and daucus carrota 'Dara'. I have already sown the annual daucus and seseli so have the hercleum on order from Jelitto.