This early blooming, shade loving perennial will thrill you for its bloom but its foliage is one of those subtle landscape charms that can become the bedrock of the garden. Big, rounded, evergreen, fleshy leaves form a tight, pleasing mound almost like a small, succulent Hosta. Its leaves are dark and shiny green in the spring and summer and will take on a distinctive purple hue as the cold weather of fall and winter hit. Fleshy flower stalks bearing loads of small buds rise above the still purplish foliage in late April and burst into a flaming fuschia color that is totally unlike the flower of any other early spring bloomer. Its flowers last well into May as the foliage greens to greet the warming temperatures. Plant ‘Overture’ in big groups to give your semi-shaded garden some real winter substance and some wonderful, electric early to mid spring color!