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The Gunnera is still growing. . . and growing. . . and is now over seven feet tall and fifteen feet across.
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Gunnera manicata
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Hydrangea and Ligularia
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White Hydrangea quercifolia in front of a large planting of Ligularia stenocephala.
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Graceful slender Cimicifuga spires reaching eight feet high--the tight round buds are extraordinary at catching the light.
AGM
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Cimicifuga racemosa
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Cimicifuga and Hydrangea
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White Hydrangea arborescens Annabelleš (AGM) blooming in front of the really tall Cimicifuga racemosa.
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The blue flowers--and even the foliage--of Hyacinthoides hispanica are long gone in this spot--and the new growth of the Sasa has replaced them. Fully green now, the leaves will develop their characteristic white margins after the first frost.
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Sasa veitchii
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Sambucus nigra 'Aureomarginata'
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Deep in the Woodlands, this shrub with five-part leaves edged in white is a member of the Caprifoliaceae family native to Europe and Britain.
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A member of the Rosaceae family native to Asia, Europe, and Britain and known as Meadow Sweet or Queen of the Meadows.
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Filipendula ulmaria 'Flore Pleno'
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Patrinia gibbosa
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A large patch of a member of the Valerianaceae family native to Japan with clusters of small yellow flowers.
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Known as the Masterwort, each of what appears to be a flower is actually an umbel of many flowers surrounded by a row of bracts. A member of the Apiaceae family.
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Astrantia major
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Anemone virginiana
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On the Himalayan Slope, a white Anemone, native to North Ameriaca, in bloom and with seed heads.
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Below the Wisteria Pavilion the clusters of Clerodendrum trichotomum buds are gracefully unfurling.
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Clerodendrum trichotomum
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Trachelium asperuloides
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There is still a lot to see in the Alpine House including this tiny blue flowering member of the Campanulaceae family from Greece growing in a tufa rock.
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A member of the Plumbaginaceae family native to Europe and England--and particularly the Norfolk coast--this intricately branched Sea Lavender, about six inches high, is blooming in a pot in the Alpine House.
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Limonium bellidifolium
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Pelargonium endlicherianum
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And also in the Alpine House, a unique Pelargonium from Asia Minor and Armenia.
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