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Editor's Journal: Stonecrop

There is a lot happening in the Woodlands, but yellow Magnolia 'Elizabeth'--the result of a cross of M. acuminata x M. denudata by Evamaria Sperber at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1956--is the show stopper of this beautiful (finally!) sunny spring day with the temperature about 70. The Gunneras are getting bigger and are still being covered with a gauzy fabric by day and plywood by night, and many gems are popping up in the Woodlands. Continue.

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Down the carefully crafted new curving boardwalk some of the new white plantings can be seen on the near right with 'Elizabeth' framed (a bit tightly) by some of the tall deciduous trees in the Woodland.
Down the Boardwalk
Across the Pond
And across the pond 'Elizabeth' is peeking out from behind a Birch.
Looking south across the pond and the end of the Conservatory to Magnolia 'Elizabeth.' A fast growing cultivar, this large specimen fills its space well.
Across the Pond
Magnolia 'Elizabeth'
A close-up of some branches covered with the large creamy yellow flowers.
A close-up of a creamy yellow flower.
Magnolia 'Elizabeth'
Gunnera manicata
Seen against the inside of its insulated box, it's getting bigger! And speaking of bigger, the neighboring Petasites leaves are already over 18 inches across.
No need to go back to April 27 to see the Glaucidium, here is this perennial treasure again.
Glaucidium palmatum
Viola sororia 'Freckles'
The name says it all--Just like the common Violet--except the flowers are white with a splattering of freckles. What a great idea!
An old English clone first seen in the Oxford Botanic Garden.
Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana'
Anemone and Lathyrus
So many ways to do blue and white in the Woodland. Here we have Anemone blanda 'White Splendour' with Lathryrus vernus 'Blue.'
Here is the white form--last week we saw the checkered red form.
Fritillaria meleagris 'Alba'
Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'
To quote Dan Hinkley--"One of the very best white forms of Wood Anemone, with six elegant petals and a central boss of white petaloid stamens, forming a pompom effect of great beauty, held above low mats of ephemeral spring foliage." There you have it!
Blue Forget-Me-Not-like flowers on a Brunnera cultivar apparently named for its leaves edged with white.
Brunnera macrophylla 'Dawson's White'
Lunaria annua var variegata
The second Lunaria of this day's report--the perennial species, L. rediviva, is shown in the Flower Garden on the previous page.
Stonecrop--Daffodils and Tulips. . . Finally!

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