The Chatelaine’. It’s a name that sounds like the monniker for a castle from the middle ages or some imposing abbey perched on a European alpine summit. You will find it an apt name for this imposing bloom that will lord above the garden in late May and June. An upright mound of blue-green, palmate foliage gives rise to thick stems surrounded by fat buds. These stems reach 12 to 18″ tall and will bear big, bonnet-like flowers that are a bicolor mix of strong, alluring pink and almost irridescent pearly white. What a show from a plant that takes the lead in the garden during its time in bloom and makes all the other bloomers in the garden that much more effective. No wonder this spectacular spring bloomer is named after a big, brawny fortress! Let ‘The Chatelaine’ perch above your sunny garden in any deep, moist, well drained soil location.