tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998479738444661160.post8831988179016072698..comments2023-11-13T07:19:45.061+00:00Comments on CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Propping up the banks........Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998479738444661160.post-12991590094249882202013-04-22T16:33:18.690+00:002013-04-22T16:33:18.690+00:00Hi Christina, Thanks for the kind comment. It does...Hi Christina, Thanks for the kind comment. It does seem to be an exceptional year for this plant - maybe the cold weather held it back so that much more is flowering synchronously.........?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15609107148344256875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998479738444661160.post-7818221198432767652013-04-22T14:50:02.846+00:002013-04-22T14:50:02.846+00:00Really enjoy your blog posts, Phil. Have been not...Really enjoy your blog posts, Phil. Have been noticing masses and masses of Butterbur all along the riverbanks from behind Poplar Tree Garden Centre, Shincliffe and on up beyond Shincliffe Hall. Very very sandy banks, however, which are eroding quite dramatically in places. Curious plant. Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161694301811589470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998479738444661160.post-60480036925132933032013-04-19T20:00:35.944+00:002013-04-19T20:00:35.944+00:00Hi gardens at Waters East, Thanks for the kind com...Hi gardens at Waters East, Thanks for the kind comment. I used to have winter heliotrope Petasites fragrans in my garden, which is a close relative that has a very attractive marzipan scent and blooms in winter, but it became far too invasive.I really like the massive leaves of butterbur - the famous herbal herbalist John Gerard observed, in his herbal of 1597, that the leaves are ‘bigge and large inough to keepe a mans head from raine, and from the heate of the sunne’.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15609107148344256875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998479738444661160.post-53358458888077085682013-04-18T23:24:35.471+00:002013-04-18T23:24:35.471+00:00Phil, Liked seeing your photos today. I have two...Phil, Liked seeing your photos today. I have two different types in my garden, Panacides japonica and Petasites japonicus. If they are not part of the family you posted, they sure look the same in Spring. It will be weeks before I see them. We are having snow again tomorrow. Love the large leaves when fully developed. It is my "tropical" look for that part of the garden. Glad to visit again today. JackGardens at Waters Easthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04007610849161868747noreply@blogger.com