Angelica Korean Angelica Gigas is a perennial plant native to Korea, Japan and China. Angelica Korean seeds can be started indoors or directly outdoors. Other common names of this plant are Giant Angelica, Purple Parsnip, and Dangquai. Angelica Gigas is a stout, 5-6 feet tall plant that has deep thick roots and features broad, fingered foliage with deeply dissected, very big, pointy leaves and deep reddish purple ribbed stems., and this rich coloration extends to the 6-8 inches broad umbels of minute flowers that cap 5-6 feet plants adding a dramatic accent in the garden. The blooming from August toward the end of September Giant Angelica forms a bushy, upright clump of coarse green leaves, bearing huge umbrella-like heads of crimson-red flowers attracting numerous pollinators including honeybees and butterflies.
Angelica Korean is often grown as a stand alone specimen or used in mass plantings, and other garden uses include cottage gardens, naturalistic gardens, woodland edge gardens, pollinator gardens, herb gardens. containers, flower beds and borders, woodland and waterside plantings. Purple Parsnip looks best when planted against fine-textured grasses or other airy, see-through plants at the mid-to-back border. After blooming, decorative seed heads appear, but most of them have to be removed to encourage a repeat show the following year. Angelica Gigas seeds are benefit from cold stratification, and established Korean Angelica grows best in full sun or partial shade and rich soil tolerating clay, heat and humidity. Angelica plant re-seeds itself freely, and unique looking flower heads make this plant an excellent fresh or dry cut flower.
PLANT PROFILE
Season: Perennial
Height: 5-6 Feet
Bloom Season: Summer/Fall
Environment: Sun/Partial Shade
Soil Type: Rich/Average/Moist well-drained, pH 5.5-7.00
USDA Zones: 4-9
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS
Sow Indoors: Winter/Spring (8 weeks before last frost)
Sow Outdoors: Spring/Fall
Seed Depth: 1/4 Inch
Germination Time: 21-60 Days
