{"id":10605,"date":"2010-04-12T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:48:31","slug":"spring-garden-tour-berkshire-botanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-garden-tour-berkshire-botanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Garden Tour -Berkshire Botanic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
Magnolias set the stage in the Berkshire Botanic Garden, saying “spring is here” boldly.
Prunus subhirtella autumnallis<\/p>\n
Identified yesterday after viewing this blog by John Grimshaw ( thanks John!) as Petasites hybridus, not P. japonicus as we first we’re told that it was, ( although it was correctly labeled at the BBG), this is then indeed a different form of Petasites from our selections of P. japonicus. Mr Grimshaw also informs us that this is a northern European species, “It has nothing to do with P. japonicus beyond generic kinship and the shared habit of extreme invasiveness”. Take note: Plant this with caution! This will run and carpet a significant part of your garden. We like it, but we have a large garden and don’t mind dedicating a few hundred square feet of wet garden to such plants.<\/p>\n
which has a distinctly different blossom in color and form, than our form of the same species. Thankfully, the Berkshire staff shared a division with us ( ha, shared – most people dread planting the plant since it runs, but we are the sort who like such statements). I think that this form may be the slightly smaller Petasites japonicus that was being shared in the 1990’s and not the true P. japonicus var. Giganteus’ that we have ( from the old Heronswood) since our form has flowers that are lime green and massive. Still, I love the way this form blooms, much denser and when naturalized in the woodland in moist areas, makes a nice early statement in the garden ( in the ‘right’ garden setting, anyway). In the summer, the huge umbrella like leaves will look like lotus leaves floating above the ground. I’ve been told that these leaves are about 3 feet in diameter, our form has some that are 4 feet wide, and 6 feet tall.
More Petasites (pronounced Pet-ah-sight-tee’s).<\/p>\n
A jeffersonia blooms in the woodland garden.
The Bloodroot is starting to blossom in the garden, a few weeks before out native form blooms in the woods.
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