Prinsepia sinensis - what the heck is it?
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Comments (38)silversword, I checked out those links you provided. All provide erroneous information (in contradiction to accurate and reliable info provided by the Mayo Clinic). Two of your links go to supplement dealers' websites. Getting advice from them is like getting drug advice from a pharmaceutical company's site. Two articles are on general purpose sites, one written by an "ehow member", neither author apparently having any medical training. The other is an anonymous article on a cooking site. This illustrates the hazards of getting medical advice from the Internet. There are a slew of websites and articles promoting all kinds of products and treatments, by people with various levels of experience and training (or none at all) and with potential axes to grind that are not in accord with readers' best interesta. "Anyone who would take anyone's advice, including yours, without consulting someone who was qualified to give them personalized care would be foolhardy." I absolutely agree, and have said so on numerous occasions here (I have not given personal advice, but linked to a couple of reliable sites, one of which you also chose to reference). People are best off when they see the advice of a qualified physician or other practitioner that they trust, or go to websites that are known for providing reliable information. Here are numerous sources from a thread I started awhile back on good herbalism websites....See Morewhat plants have you let behind over the years
Comments (22)I dunno - I find my tastes and whims are very cyclical - I get easily bored and, after sowing and raising a plant a couple of times, they go on my 'done' list and may retire, sometimes for years. Foxgloves, for example, have been and gone at least 3 times over the last 15 years. Sweet peas - some years, I simply don't bother, some years, I have a perfunctory attempt and other years (this one) I find I have some 200 seedlings of around 20 varieties. Even so, brugmansias and abutilons have largely been banished (all that overwintering cuttings). Bedding plants have just about disappeared off my radar. Echinaceas (you all know the ones) have been a source of much disappointment so I stick with the reliable gaillardias and heleniums if I want orange daisies. Bearded Iris (what was I thinking - a huge clump of over the topness with blooms which last for a week and sordid looking leaves all summer - yeah, I am getting my coat). Eryngiums (fad plants - nasty, prickly things, only one left) Verbena bonariensis - ubiquitous (now the little mexican daisy, erigeron karvinskiana is following suit in the UK - everywhere) Centranthus (blown in from next door (we are no longer speaking!) Acanthus (bullied into it by Mr Campanula ( who trained as a plasterer and had fond memories of casting acanthus leaves and egg and dart mouldings - divorce imminent) As for roses - my fervour continues unabated but I still wince in horror, thinking about the hideous Blue Moon (shudder) and spectacularly ugly Queen Elizabeth (yep, really getting ready to duck) - it is wildlings all the way for me now - in fact, a love of all things rosaceae has been the one constant in my gardening choices....See Morecutting down miscanthus sinensis malepartus
Comments (5)Speaking of rabbits. It reminds me of a funny story. A few years ago I had a small group of baby bunnies making a home under my front porch and all spring they were feasting on my perennials as they started to sprout. I was REALLY getting peeved and was determined to get these buggers or at least scare the bejezus out of them. So I sat on the front porch one spring afternoon in my favorite chair, with a whiffle ball bat in hand. My wife, wondering where I was finally located me and upon opening the front screen door she asked, "what the heck are you doing out here...???" Without missing a beat I slapped the bat into my palm, turned to her and raised my finger to my lips and said... "Shhhhhhhhh ... be vewy, vewy quiet..... I'm hunting wabbits..." She just shook her head, chuckled at me and left me to my lunacy, mumbling something about the looney bin. I never did get those buggers.... Blackie...See MoreWisteria Lane
Comments (30)Yama, How right you are there is a ton of information about Dr. Casper, The Oxford University Press had this to say; The name of this vine was given by Thomas Nuttal, curator of Harvard's Botanical Garden, who made an error in spelling the name of the man he planned to honor. That man's name was Wistar. But at the death of the honoree in 1818, the plant was named wisteria. Nuttal wrote in his Genera North American Plants II , "In memory of Casper Wistar, M.D., late professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania." But too late. Nuttal had already named the plant wisteria. The following I discovered at Associated Content published by Donna and thought was interesting as well. The world's largest wisteria vine grows in Sierra Madre, California. There is even a festival honoring this mammoth wisteria vine and the plant's namesake. The Wistaria Festival takes place annually in this community in California that is home to the more than 100 year old wisteria vine. The popular and showy wisteria vine was originally named Glycinia after the word "glykys," which is Greek for sweet. An American naturalist, Thomas Nuttall, renamed the wisteria in the 1800s to honor a renowned botanist at the University of Pennsylvania. Even though the plant was named in honor of Professor Casper Wistar, his named was accidentally misspelled and the 'a' was replaced with an 'e'. The name was never changed, and wisteria has been the common and botanical name of this plant ever since. The masterpiece wisteria vine growing in California is so large that it has received a place in the 'The Guinness Book of Records'. It has been named as "The largest blossoming plant in the world." This amazing wisteria vine is more than one acre in size and weighs 250 tons. It has more than 1.5 million blossoms every year with 40 blooms per square foot. The branches of this unbelievable wisteria vine reach an amazing 500 feet long. Horticultural experts have estimated the branches can grow 24 inches in 24 hours. The world's largest wisteria vine is a beautiful lavender Chinese variety. It was planted in 1894 by William and Alice Brugman. The couple bought the plant at a local nursery for 75 cents and planted it near their home. They eventually sold their home twenty years after planting the wisteria. H. T. Fennel bought the home and fell in love with the wisteria vine and began building arbors for it. The wisteria vine continued growing and became too large for the supports erected by Mr. Fennel. The huge plant eventually began growing onto the house. The roof could not support the weight of the giant wisteria vine and finally the roof collapsed. The house was demolished in 1931. They built a new house close by. New supports kept being added for the wisteria and it was allowed to continue growing. This extraordinary wisteria vine was honored with its first festival in 1918. This tradition has continued every year since. The festival has approximately 15,000 visitors each spring to celebrate the world's largest wisteria vine. This magnificent antique wisteria vine has been named one of the seven horticultural wonders of the world. It takes an honorably place with the gardens of Buckingham Palace, the redwood forests of Sequoia National Park, Brazil's tropical jungle in the Amazon Valley, India's gardens of the Taj Mahal, Japan's Yokohama rockgardens, and Mexico's Xochimilco floating gardens. Thanks yama and I we can view Mr Kawaharada's photos. kt...See More- 15 years ago
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