I thought the flower shape was a match. My last guess here is Epimedium x warleyense ‘Ellen Wilmott’ which has less of the orange.
Of note, the photo is the original post by @Bluebelltime is a crop of a screenshot from Gardeners’ World 2021 episode 5 so you can get a wider view looking at that.
They’re very low maintenance and from my experience with E. pubigerum are slow growers and not invasive (although they do spread underground via rhizomes) — I planted some in a shady/part shady border 4 years ago, they’ve slowly spread but I haven’t had to rip them out from somewhere they shouldn’t be.
Basically I planted them and watered them in well, maybe I watered them a few times in the first year but other than the twice yearly mulch that the border receives in general (not specially for the epimedium) they get no fertilisers or watering. I water the ‘main’ plants that are planted in the border if they are thirsty, but I don’t specifically water the epimedium at all now that they’re well established.
In terms of pruning, I remove the flower stalks once they’re spent, and every winter (February generally) I cut off all the leaves and stems, basically there would be nothing left of the plants sticking out of the ground. New leaves then come out in March, followed by the flowers in April.
Hope you enjoy your epimedium! I find them magical and dainty, at the same time tough and undemanding.
I’m still puzzled by the very pink colouring of the flowers though. I can vouch for the fact that E. versicolor ‘Cherry Tart’ has pink flowers, but these are quite a bit darker. Time to check out my best Christmas present—Stearn on Epimediums!
So many tiny details to look at in Epimediums...endlessly fascinating and exquisite.
Plants come and go in fashion ..eg Hosta/Heuchera/Epimediums. Stearns book is wonderful. However it was written in 1938. Since his book was republished/updated in 2002 many new hybrid/cultivars have been created by man. Ones Stearn could never have dreamed about.
Book.......Epimediums.....This Kew classic is an augmented edition of William Stearn’s classic monograph on Epimedium published in 1938
Yes! Someone needs to write a new one.
My 'Cherry Tart' has turned paler, so I now wonder if the flowers in the OP are actually that but a few days old.
My star this year is 'Mariko' though. Copes with my alkaline soil and the flowers are impressive in size and colour without losing delicacy. It's only a baby so the photo doesn't really do it justice.
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Colours from pics can be very hard.
Maybe Bluebelltime pics are not completely true.
More re....Epimedium x warleyense Ellen Willmott .
Quotes from www.....
The upright stems of delicate coppery orange flowers set this hybrid apart from most Epimediums.
Small peachy-orange flowers, with spurs yellow.
The flowers open red and fade to orange.
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Basically I planted them and watered them in well, maybe I watered them a few times in the first year but other than the twice yearly mulch that the border receives in general (not specially for the epimedium) they get no fertilisers or watering. I water the ‘main’ plants that are planted in the border if they are thirsty, but I don’t specifically water the epimedium at all now that they’re well established.
In terms of pruning, I remove the flower stalks once they’re spent, and every winter (February generally) I cut off all the leaves and stems, basically there would be nothing left of the plants sticking out of the ground. New leaves then come out in March, followed by the flowers in April.
Hope you enjoy your epimedium! I find them magical and dainty, at the same time tough and undemanding.
My 'Cherry Tart' has turned paler, so I now wonder if the flowers in the OP are actually that but a few days old.