flower performance of rodgersia
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Comments (3)I, too, grow some of the green-leaved forms in my garden borders, and their leaves do open with a bronzy cast as they unfurl in the spring, but they don't keep the dark color all season. I have had 3 different plants growing for years, bought at 3 different times, and each one was SUPPOSED to be Rodgersia pinnata 'Superba', with pink to red flowers, and so far each one has bloomed with creamy off white flowers! NOT what I was expecting! They are indeed an awesome sight growing in England, and I was hoping for plants like that, but so far I've had no such luck finding them around here. I have also just planted R. 'Chocolate Wings' in another part of the garden, but it is only in its first year, and by the end of this year its leaves were not bronze either, but green. I love them, but I'd be surprised if any of them held the bronze color all season long. I will just continue to grow them for their great foliage, and if they ever do bloom, so much the better....See MoreRodgersia and shade
Comments (58)Catkin - I did a Google image search using the photo you posted and R. podophylla appeared in all its glory! I also checked out the Missouri BG website and found this description: Rodgersia podophylla is a bold, clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial that is native to shaded slopes, moist woodlands and stream banks in Japan and Korea. Although the summer-blooming, astilbe-like, creamy-white flowers in foot-long clusters are ornamentally attractive, it is the large, coarsely-toothed, palmate, green to bronze-green leaves (basal leaves to 16” across/cauline leaves smaller) that primarily attract gardeners to this plant. This is a substantial perennial that typically forms a spreading foliage mound to 3' tall and as wide. It will naturalize over time by thick rhizomes. Each palmate-compound leaf has 5 (less frequently 7) lobes. Each lobe is deeply veined and serrated with 3-5 shallow lobes near the apex. Leaves emerge bronze-green in spring, mature to green in summer and finally turn bronze-red in fall. Small, white to greenish-white funnel-shaped, apetulous flowers bloom in dense, branched clusters (to 12" long) from June to August on upright stems rising 1'-2' above the foliage mound. This species is sometimes commonly called bronzeleaf rodgersia. Enjoy!...See MoreWhich Flowers performed bad for you this year?
Comments (16)Being the first growing season for me in this zone I really don't have much to base it on but do compare to growing in the panhandle of Florida. Never had problems with Moonflowers but I had grown them in FL on the north side of the house. Here I tried growing them on the south side and they took off. The vines looked great on my front porch posts, but they didn't seem to bloom as profusely as they have for me before. Then the aphids attacked them. I ended up pulling them all up last weekend and saving only a few seeds. I also tried some in a container on the north side of the house and they didn't do well at all. Small leaves, little vines and only one flower. I don't think they like potting soil...might be too rich for them. Don't think I'll give them a try next year....I'll move on to other flowers. Pam Lake of the Ozarks...See MoreFlowering, Drought and Disease Tolerance, and Landscape Performance of
Comments (2)Very interesting read. The drought described was extremely similar to our summer last year, so I’m very interested in the results and ratings. Thanks for sharing!...See Morekatob Z6ish, NE Pa
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