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18.01.2024 - 21:37 / backyardgardener.com / Frederick Leeth
A particularly tough house and greenhouse plant with long, broad, evergreen leaves. It is a suitable plant for planting outdoors in shady places where winters are mild. Even at New York City it has been known to live outdoors for several years, but the winters there are too severe for it to thrive. It is a native of China and belongs to the Lily family, Liliaceae. The word Aspidistra alludes to the form of the flowers and is derived from aspidiseon, a small, round shield, and probably refers to the shape of the stigma.
Aspidistra is the most easily managed of all house plants and may be kept healthy and vigorous for years with minimum attention. During the winter it should be placed in full light. In summer the leaves must not be exposed to bright sunshine for long or they may lose their rich green color, which is their chief attraction.
During the hot summer weather, a shady window or a shaded location outdoors is the best place for Aspidistra. The leaves benefit by being sponged occasionally with warm soapy water.
March is the best time to repot or to separate old plants into several pieces and repot them. The pots must be clean and drained by a layer of crocks (pieces of flowerpot) in the bottom; a compost of loam two thirds, leaf mold one third, with a scattering of sand and crushed charcoal, should be used. It is not necessary to repot Aspidistra annually but in March some of the surface soil should be removed with a pointed stick .and replaced with fresh compost.
Watering is an important detail in the management of Aspidistra. Water ought to be given only when the soil is moderately dry. The curious flowers of the Aspidistra, which are occasionally produced by large, well-established plants, appear low down among the
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Named for Karl August von Bergen, 1704-60, German botanist (Saxifragaceae). These hardy perennial herbaceous plants with large evergreen leaves were at one time called megasea, and were at another time included with the saxifrages. The flowers which come in early spring are showy in white, pink or red-purple, borne in large heads on long stems. The large leathery, glossy leaves are also decorative, especially as in some kinds the foliage is suffused with reddish color in winter.
London pride (Saxifraga x urbium) is a low-growing evergreen perennial, a hybrid between Spanish Saxifraga umbrosa and Irish Saxifraga spathularis. Once a great garden favourite, London pride plant is hardy and looks good all year round, forming spreading clumps of leafy rosettes made up of spoon-shaped, fleshy, mid-green leaves. In summer masses of small, pink-flushed white flowers are borne on slender stems of around 30cm in height, lasting for up to three months. London Pride thrives in most soils and situations and is especially useful for shady sites. It’s an undemanding and versatile perennial that has fallen from fashion but is a worthwhile garden plant, being easy to grow, yet not invasive. Called London pride because it flourished on bombed sites in the city during the Second World War, it’s even the subject of a song by playwright and composer Noel Coward, whose song titled ‘London Pride’ was popular at the time.
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We plant trees for their beauty of leaf, whether green in Summer or red in the Autumn; for their bark which becomes particularly fascinating. We plant trees because we love them. Some trees linger in our memories as old friends, from whose branches we have swung and “skinned-the-cat”; under whose cool shade we have rested from play or work. Some trees seem to have moods, changing from day to day, season to season, and from youth to old age.
These were certainly known to the Ancient Egyptians and are probably natives of northern and western Asia. They are extremely hardy.
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