Daucus carota 'Dara'

Umbellifers continue to delight and attract new admirers each season and we are always on the hunt for new cultivars.  ‘Dara’ is a form of wild carrot which has been a hit both at the shows and nursery with its delicate filigree umbel flowerheads like large lacy doilies sitting pretty on willowy stems above divided foliage.

What makes it different is its gorgeous midsummer into autumn floral palette with flowers opening either white, pale pink or wine red before gently closing to form intricate seedheads that last into early winter.  Effortlessly graceful it is a shoe-in for a naturalistic planting scheme combined with ornamental grasses, or a wildlife garden as bees and other pollinators love its nectar-rich flowers.  Biennial, it prefers a poor to slightly fertile free-draining soil where it will self-seed readily.