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Just beyond the Fothergilla major, the Gunnera appears to be escaping from its box. The Fothergilla is a member of the Hamamelidaceae family native to the Allegheny Mountains.
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Gunnera and Fothergilla
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Gunnera manicata
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It's definitely escaping. No more covering it at night this spring, and the surrounding sides of the box will have to be removed soon.
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The Hakonechloa has come a long way since April 11 and unlike another of our favorite grasses in the Woodland, Sasa veitchii, it is almost fully out for the season.
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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
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Rheum
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Back to the story of "big" for a moment, the Petasites leaves are now about two feet, and the Rheum palmatum on the Himalayan Slope below the Wisteria Pavilion is getting large also.
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Amusingly spotted leaves on Tricyrtis formosana about to flower soon in the Woodland.
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Tricyrtis formosana
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Heuchera 'Garnet'
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One of the wonderfully decorative new Heucheras, this cultivar is variegated with deep red.
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A member of the Primulaceae family known as Shooting Stars and native to eastern North America.
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Dodecatheon meadia f. album
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Trillium grandiflorum
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Certainly not one of the rarer species of Trillium at Stonecrop, but a beautiful glowing white.
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This Lunaria seems to be much more in flower than it was just a week ago.
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Lunaria annua var. variegata.
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Aubrieta gracilis
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A member of the Cruciferae family from southeast Europe growing in the stone wall of the Draba bed near the potting shed. The genus is named after Claude Aubriet, a French botanical artist.
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A mustard yellow Aurinia blooming halfway down on the Cliff. See also the form with variegated foliage blooming in a trough at Wave Hill on May 8. Both are members of the Cruciferae family.
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Aurinia saxatilis 'Dudley Nevill'
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Anemone biarmiensis
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A pale yellow Anemone nodding in the breeze on the Cliff.
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An interesting pink Saxifraga cultivar growing in the rocks.
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Saxifraga x arendsii
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Saxifraga moschata
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A rather large patch of the Moss Saxifraga doing very well in full sun. This Sax usually requires a shadier location, but here with water running under its roots, it could not be doing better. Native from the Pyrenees to Caucasus Mountains.
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