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Huge leaves and truly gigantic white umbels on plants five feet high on June 1--another fast grower at Stonecrop.
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Heracleum antasiaticum
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Allium christophii
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Alliums continue to be an important part of the Flower Garden. This species--known as the Star of Persia--has distinctive large umbels of silvery light purple flowers. Native to Turkestan and a member of the Alliaceae family.
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The Joe Pye Weed, a member of the Asteraceae family, native to North America. The new foliage is tinged purple and these plants should be quite tall fairly soon.
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Eupatorium purpureum
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Allium hollandicum 'Purple Sensation'
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The name says it all. This cultivar has been blooming for a while and is just about at its peak.
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Pink Rhododendron 'Scintillation' with the Petasites japonicus var. giganteus in the back left and the Gunnera manicata (AGM) in the back right.
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Rhododendron, Petasites, and Gunnera
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Gunnera manicata inflorescence
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The three foot high flower stalks have a series of thick "fingers" radiating out and curving up and carrying the amazingly small flowers. A member of its own family, Gunneraceae and native to southern Brazil, the genus is named after J. E. Gunnerus, a Norwegian bishop and botanist.
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There is a clump with about a dozen of these amazing flowers--the long, thin, pointy spadix seems to be a continuation of the stem which turns black as it makes a right angle through the spathe and then turns back to green as it makes another right angle and turns upward after being pinched by the spathe.
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Pinellia tripartita
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Kerria japonica
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A member of the Rosaceae family, native to China and Japan, brightening up the Woodlands with its clear yellow flowers. A shrub growing to six feet, this is the only species of the genus, although there are several cultivars including the double--'Pleniflora' and the variegated--'Picta.'
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A spectacular cultivar that may have been named for its price!
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Pulmonaria 'British Sterling'
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Anemone sylvestris
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Bright white flowers with large deeply cut leaves of a very spreading perennial.
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A light purple Geranium with small finely cut leaves.
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Geranium sanguinium
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Centaurea montana alba
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Moving on to the Gravel Garden, a white Centaurea. A member of the Asteraceae family, the flower head look a bit like a pinwheel.
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The new foliage is covered with white hairs and the mature foliage, as can be seen here, is amazing. A member of the Asteraceae family native to Korea and Japan. At the top, a few pink flowers of the neighboring Neillia thibetica.
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Syneilesis aconitifolia
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Baptisia and Hippophae
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The brilliant blue flower stalks of this Baptisia australis (AGM) look like a vertical version of a Wisteria. A member of the Papilionaceae family from the eastern US. Looks particularly fine in the Gravel Garden in front of Hippophae rhamnoides (AGM) with its narrow silvery-grey-green leaves.
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