#placeforplants

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 22 March 2023

Rosettes of toothed yellow-green bracts surround the tiny yellow flowers of Hacquetia epipactis (broad-leaved sanicle) as this low clump-forming perennial greets the early spring.

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 3 May 2023

The foliage of Cyclamen hederifolium is highly decorative and variable. In this woodland garden the cormous perennial produces winter and spring flowers in pink and sometimes white but the foliage then provides the display.

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 5 May 2021

The new foliage of Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Sem' attracts attention at this time of the year, but this thicket-forming deciduous shrub can be invasive so it should be used with care. The flushed pink-bronze leaves of spring turn green in summer and provide red autumn colour.

Plant of the Day

Sunday 2 May 2021

At Place for Plants, Suffolk, UK, lots of fascinating woody species were flowering to greet the spring. One of the treasures I saw in this woodland garden was Illicium yunnanense (anise). This evergreen plant has flowers of greenish-yellow.

Plant of the Day

Thursday 13 August 2020

The sophisticated foliage and flowers of Syneilesis aconitifolia (shredded umbrella plant, tattered umbrella) provide an unusual element to the edge of this woodland border. The foliage emerges from a slowly spreading rhizome beneath the soil surface. The young leaves are covered in silky fine white hairs and unfurl like umbrellas. Flowers appear in late summer on tall stems with up to 30 tubular blooms per head. This distinctive plant needs a moist, well drained humus-rich soil.

Plant of the Day

Friday 24 July 2020

A young specimen of Pinus coulteri (big-cone pine, Coulter pine) forms an impressive tree as part of a tree belt on the edge of a meadow. This evergreen will develop a large, broad, open crown with stout shoots bearing thick, long, blue-grey needles in bundles of three. The tree will eventually produce large cones, up to 30cm long, that are the heaviest cones of any pine tree.

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 29 July 2020

Here the beautiful texture and delicate colouration from the foliage of Acer palmatum 'Villa Taranto' (Japanese maple) contribute to the garden. This small, deciduous shrub has five narrow lobed leaves that are tinted red when young and become greener with age, and provide golden autumn colour.

Plant of the Day

Thursday 6 August 2020

A large suckering deciduous shrub from the woodlands of the southeastern states of the USA is Aesculus parviflora (bottlebrush buckeye). The palmate leaves open as a bronze colour, then turning dark green, and finally yellow in autumn. The white flowers have prominent stamens and are popular with the bees and other insects. I like the way the flowers form a misty appearance above the foliage.