Monkshood, Wolf’s Bane. If you’re new to gardening but have read Harry Potter, you may be familiar with these names. Brilliant blue-purple flowers in the buttercup family. Late summer/ early fall bloomer. Will grow in sun or partial shade. Plant is poisonous but no one is likely to eat it as the alkaloids in it are extremely bitter.

1. Aconitum bicolor

2. Aconitum napellus

3. Aconitum henryi ‘Spark’s Variety’

Notes:

• Fall bloom