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Plant of the Day

Sunday 1 May 2022

Yellow seems a common colour for spring and the flowers of Caltha polypetala (giant marsh marigold, kingcup) are particularly radiant. This herbaceous perennial thrives in a permanently damp soil and here is growing on the edge of a pond.

Plant of the Day

Sunday 27 March 2022.

Growing in full or partial shade in moist soil Cardamine pentaphylla (showy toothwort) will produce delicate pink flowers in the early spring. This is a spreading perennial which becomes summer dormant.

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 29 June 2021

In a woodland garden with moist but well-drained soil the Veratrum album (white false hellebore, langwort) was starting to flower. This herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial has impressive stems with alternate, pleated leaves and tall, branched panicles of small, star-shaped white flowers. It takes 5 to 7 years to produce a substantial plant from seed and they need to be protected from slugs. The plant is toxic if eaten.

Plant of the Day

Monday 16 September 2019

The Newt, Somerset, was formerly known as Hadspen House, so it is not surprising to find that the cultivar Lobelia × speciosa 'Hadspen Purple' was being grown in the borders of the recently created garden. This semi-evergreen perennial has upright stems and is best planted in deep, fertile and moist soil in sun or partial shade.

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 8 May 2019

As spring continues the crosiers of the sterile fronds of Osmunda regalis (royal fern) are unfurling. This fern is native to the U.K. needing a moist location so it is often planted near a pond or stream. In the autumn the fronds of this deciduous plant turn bronze before dying back.

Plant of the Day

Thursday 9 May 2019

In the woodland garden at the Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, there was a powerful plant association of the emerging purple foliage of Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betberg' (Solomon's seal, David's harp) and the bronze of leaves of Rodgersia podophylla (Rodgers' bronze-leaf). The Polygonatum was given to Beth Chatto by Isbert Preussler and was collected by him and named after a small village in the Black Forest, near Laufen, Sulzburg. The emerging stems and young leaves are a purple-brown, slowly fading to green as the leaves mature. The plant is a hybrid of Polygonatum multiflorum (common Solomon's seal) and Polygonatum odoratum (angular Solomon's seal).

Plant of the Day 

Wednesday 9 August 2017 

The hardy herbaceous perennial Lythrum virgatum (loosestrife) provides late summer colour in the border as long as the soil is reliably moist. It is clump forming with the flowers attracting butterflies and bees. It can self-seed freely, so if you want to control its spread remove the flowerspikes as they fade. 

Gleditsia triacanthos (Common Honeylocust)

Family: Fabaceae

Native region: All US except PNW, lower NE Canada

Size: 30-75' tall

Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Habitat: Found in moist woods, stream banks, dry sites, upland sites, forest edges, river and lake shores, and shrublands. Prefers organically rich, moist, deep, well-drained soils in partial shade to full sun. While this species can grow in loam and clay, it prefers circumneutral soil (pH 6.8-7.2).

Leaf: Yellow-green in summer, yellow in fall. Exhibits large thorns.

Flowers: Green and yellow, blooming in May and June.

Ecosystem services: This is a very hardy tree which is drought tolerant, heat tolerant, and cold tolerant. Gleditsia triacanthos can withstand soil of high acidity, high saline conditions, clay-heavy soil along with a range of other conditions, this species makes a good candidate for planting conditions that are difficult for other trees, have been disturbed, or for urban areas that have had its soil disturbed. It also makes a good street tree because it is fast growing and tolerant of wind and air pollution. However, the large thorns make it dangerous, so thornless varieties should be considered. 

Surce:

https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/gleditsia/triacanthos/

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=GLTR