by priodev | Jun 14, 2023
Neat tussocks of longish narrow bipinnate or bipinnatifid deciduous foliage the pinnae curved down making them appear blobby, 30cm x 25cm. Limey soil preferred. USA and Canada Genus:Â CYSTOPTERIS Variety:Â BULBIFERA Cultivar: Plant family: Woodsiaceae Hardiness zone:Â H7...
by priodev | Jun 14, 2023
Dickie’s fern. Very finely divided grey-green fronds, 15 x 20cm. Moistish shade, hardy, Europe. Dwindled in alkaline clay but happy in gravelly soil. Is it a lime hater or a clay hater? “Dickey bladder” fern. Genus:Â CYSTOPTERIS Variety:Â DICKIEANA...
by priodev | Jun 14, 2023
Hardy hare’s foot fern. Coll.Taiwan at 2660m. Slender creeping rhizome with small herbaceous triangular 3-4-pinnatifid yellow-green fronds 30-50cm long. Easily grown in a leafy moisture retentive soil in shade. Genus:Â CYSTOPTERIS Variety:Â MOUPINENSIS Cultivar:...
by priodev | Jun 14, 2023
Flowers look and smell like pineapples (corroboration for the doctrine of signatures?) May-Jul, 3m. Silvery leaves. Easy. Synonym Argyrocytisus battandieri. Pineapple broom. Genus:Â CYTISUS Variety:Â BATTANDIERI Cultivar: Plant family: Papilioniaceae Hardiness zone:Â H5...
by priodev | Jun 14, 2023
Long horizontal crimson trumpets. Genus:Â CYRTANTHUS Variety:Â ‘VENUS’ Cultivar: Plant family: Amaryllidaceae Hardiness zone:Â Height:Â ______ Other data Foilage colour Foliage season Flower colour Flowering season Soil moisture Shadiness Hardiness Plant...