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Sat, May 7, 11 at 22:45
| Can anyone tell me what the two foliage plants are in the lower left of this picture? I'm talking about the C-shaped chartreuse plant and the variegated heart-shaped leaves next to it. I know the picture isn't very clear but if anyone has any guesses I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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| I think the heart shaped leaf one is Arum Italicum pictum. The foliage arises in fall, lasts all winter, and dies back after flowering in spring. Then in late summer a brilliant orange seed head appears. The chartreuse one may be one of the chartreuse Heucheras. |
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| I think that the one which might be Arum looks more like Cyclamen hederifolium judging by the markings. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cyclamen hederifolium
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 11 at 9:41
| I'd agree about the chartreuse being one of the chartreuse heucheras. But not so sure about the variegated heart-shaped leaf :-) The leaves look overly large to be a hardy cyclamen and too low growing to be the arum. I think it looks rather more like hardy ginger, Asarum splendens. |
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| Gardengal, I think you're right! I saw the garden in person and I Googled images for all the suggestions... all of which look nice, by the way. And I think Laceyvail is spot-on with the chartreuse being a heuchera. I grow coral bells but didn't recognize it since the color threw me off. Thanks so much everyone -- I loved the way these both looked and now I can get some! |
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| gardengal - thanks for introducing me to A splendens. Never seen it before but it does look lovely. I've looked it up and coincidentally a site I found compares it to Cyclamen foliage, which is much better known over here, hence my wrong id. Thanks for putting me straight. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Asarum splendens
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| I didn't think Asarum splendens was hardy below zone 7. I had looked into it at one point. |
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| I've looked at some sources and they seem to indicate at least z6 and possibly z5 with protection but not evergreen below z7. The little city garden in the photo might have a warmer microclimte. It's certainly a lovely plant. I read it's rhizomatous. Does anyone know its rate of spread? |
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| The garden in the photo is in NYC -- Zone 7. |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, May 10, 11 at 9:35
| flora, my experience with it is that it is slow :-) Certainly much slower to spread than our native species but worth the wait. |
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| Thanks GG. |
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Asarum splendens is a terrific plant. Given enough time, it actually is a ground cover here in zone 8. A wonderful backdrop for Japanese painted fern, hostas, hellebores, solomon's seal, oxalis. I have propagated it all over my shade beds...a huge plus is that it is evergreen. I grow 4 or 5 others asarums, but this is the most showy and vigorous. The picture inserted shows it at the base of a 3 foot diameter pine tree...not particularly good soil and you can see it's holding its own. The leaves are quite large when mature...probably 5-8 inches long by 3-4 inches wide..pretty big for this group of plants.  |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Sat, May 14, 11 at 10:37
| Ooh, that's pretty |
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