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Puya
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Is that a Fatsia polycarpa behind the Trochodendron Kev? It has a silvery look about it.
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:47 am |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Hi Lee,
That is Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' its first year in the ground. It went all limp when it got frosted then snowed on but has come through more or less untouched and though very slow growing it seems to be bulkiing up quite nicely now.
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:57 am |
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:26 pm |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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It was either last November or November 2007 when I visited my cousin who works at the NY Botanical Garden and was very disappointed to see that the large Trochodendron aralioides tree just by the entrance to the NYBG main office has been sacrificed to some building improvements works. At 3m+ tall and considerably broader, it must have been a very old tree (this is one s-l-o-w plant), as well as a beauty. If I had a bigger garden, I'd certainly find room for one.
My cousin didn't know exactly why it had been felled, but it's gone. If there was a 3m tall tree in New York, at least we know that this plant is rock-solid hardy in England.
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Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:36 am |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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I would think David that the botanical garden most likely moved that valuable plant. It just hard to believe that such a manageable sized small tree couldn't be moved by bobcat and a garden full of horticulturists with young backs.
Jeez,you think we Americans are THAT big of boobs
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Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:25 am |
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David Matzdorf
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_________________ 51º33'07"N x 0º07'21"W
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Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:01 am |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:16 pm |
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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I Love Woodland Plants Too!
Nice to see so many woodland plants there Kev! I don't have any Epimediums yet simply because I didn't have space before - now I have tons, so this fall I'll pick up an assortment. I'm lucky because I can order directly from a nursery in Shikoku that specializes in woodland perennials, so I can get almost anything I desire easily. Locally Heloniopsis orientalis can be found in abundance, so sourcing them is no problem!
Let's see, about your haul - I see several Epimediums, a Trillium of the sessile group, what looks to be a Podophyllum, another Heloniopsis and I'm not sure about that Liquidambar looking plant - looks spiny! Here's a lovely little woodland perennial, Psuedotrillium rivale 'Gunnar':
Talk about a miniature!
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:42 am |
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Puya
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:46 am |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Tom love that Psuedotrillium rivale you just need a river of those trailing through your wooded area...sounds expensive.
Its good to hear you can pick up some good woodland plants as sometimes you feel embarrased by the wealth of plants available in the UK.
The liquidamber type plant is indeed spiny and is Kalopanax septemlobus from the Araliaceae family.
Lee ,
The Fatsia has been around for a number of years now and is from Cotswold garden flowers but is very slow growing but has a wonderful spiders web marbling to it.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:09 pm |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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I think Trillium spp. are lovely, but I've always been under the impression that they're martyrs to molluscs. If someone knows otherwise, or can recommend some species that can shrug off such attentions, tell me what they are, as I have ample room for all manner of shade-loving woodland understorey planting.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:51 pm |
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PeteFree
Joined: Fri May 16, 2008 2:25 pm Posts: 1139 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:23 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Now you come to mention it Pete I do not think mine are bothered either I will check them out tomorrow and snap a pic.
They are probably queuing up next to my Cardiocrinum and Veratrum .......
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:34 pm |
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Psuedotrillium?
The splitters and lumpers are clearly going to war again.
I though Paris and Trillium were being combined. To split of rivale into a separate genus of its own is going the other way.
Still, I guess they agree that the original Paris Trillium division is untenable.
Ho hum
Chad.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:36 pm |
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