Appearing later than some of its contemporaries, this fragrant shade lover will bedeck your late-season landscape with brilliant red. Perfect for adding much-needed pizzazz to shadowy spaces, astilbe are marvelous border or container plants. Placed in groups, they really pop, and busy pollinators take notice. Upright, soft plumes are made up of hundreds of tiny florets in a vibrant scarlet-red hueAstilbe x arendsii