Angelica
Angelica spp.
Special Features
A striking plant with large, umbrella-like flower heads. A dramatic presence in the garden and a magnet for pollinators, especially butterflies and bees.
Plant Specifications
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Growing Angelica on Martha's Vineyard
Angelica gigas, the Korean angelica, is a dramatic biennial or short-lived perennial that creates an architectural focal point in the moist, partially shaded to sunny garden settings of Martha's Vineyard with its enormous purple-tinged stems and large flat-topped flower umbels in late summer. It thrives in the deeper, moisture-retentive soils found near freshwater pond edges and in the sheltered, rain-retaining garden areas of up-island properties in West Tisbury, where its extraordinary vertical presence draws the eye effectively across larger landscape compositions. It naturalizes by self-seeding in favorable conditions, providing a sustainable supply of new plants without active propagation.
Deer generally avoid it due to the aromatic compounds in its foliage and stems. Estate Care professionals deploy it as a bold seasonal specimen in naturalistic and architectural garden designs where dramatic scale and late-summer presence are both design objectives.
