Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is a Gunnera manicata pushing its way up through its winter protection. It’s planted at the edge of one of the ponds at the botanical garden of the University of Hohenheim, not far from our neighborhood. (Unfortunately, its plant tag is also somewhere under all those old branches.)
Thanks to Pam at Digging for hosting Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up the 16th of every month.
A bit late, I’m afraid. . .
This month, I’m again stalking the pretty display garden of the Spielhaus* at the University of Hohenheim, which is close to our neighborhood.
What’s blooming? Low groundcover plants, tulips, and magnolias.
There were several kinds of Tulipa clusiana or Lady Tulips.
Above and below are Tulipa sylvestris subsp. sylvestris.
P. angustifolia ‘Blaues Meers’ are also called blue cowslips.
The fritillary were still blooming. They have also been called snake’s head fritillary, chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (from the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, and drooping tulip.
There’s a good article about them here, from the online garden magazine Dig Delve.
Just behind the Spielhaus were a collection of magnolia, cherry, and plum trees.
This cultivar had long flower petals that were all leaning in the same direction.
Not far away was this creamy yellow M. Cultivar ‘Elizabeth’.
To see what’s blooming today for other garden bloggers, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
*Part of the University’s botanical garden.
Yesterday was chilly, damp, and brown. Today, it’s warm and sunny, and I found primroses in the woods.
Wagtail smart in his belted blue,
Primrose paying her gold ere due,—
(Out upon Winter! Down with Sorrow!)
These are the things that I know are true.— Louise Imogen Guiney, from “Firstlings“
. . . I would wander forth/ And seek the woods.*
Witch hazels at the botanical garden of the University of Hohenheim, yesterday afternoon.
Streifzug means ‘foray,’ ‘ brief survey,’ or ‘ramble.’
*William Cullen Bryant, from “A Winter Piece“
The garden beside the 18th century Spielhaus of Hohenheim University’s Exotic Garden has a number of mature tree peonies. Like red corals, their new leaves are emerging now.
I took these pictures yesterday while it was snowing.
Because I really haven’t been gardening here in Stuttgart, for this year’s Bloom Days and Foliage Follow Ups I will record the flowers and leaves of this nearby, very pretty perennials and woody plants garden.
Thanks to Pam at Digging for hosting Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up the 16th of every month.
If you were with me
We should need no light
But peonies.— Grace Hazard Conkling, from “Diary Written on Peony Petals“
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