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"ANGELICA IS A BIENNIAL or
short lived perennial of exceptional beauty. During the
first season the plant establishes itself and produces large, glossy,
bright green compound leaves.
The second year the plant sends up a number of thick, hollow, ridged stems
topped by umbels of greenish yellow.
When grown in a fertile garden soil with ample moisture and full sun, the
plants can reach a mature height of 3-4 feet.
The flower heads mature into green, and then brown, seed heads. When the
seeds have turned brown, but before they begin to drop, they should be
collected and broadcast into an outdoor seed bed and raked lightly into
the soil.
Seedlings can be left in the seedbed for the fall and winter and then
transplanted into place in the spring of the following year.
Angelica plants left unharvested will usually produce their own
volunteers." |