18 unusual plants: from rare house plants to shade-loving garden plants to large trees. some are very rare and some sorta rare. One is extinct in the wild (Franklin) and another from a little little island in Japan (Japanese Ginger).
Bloodroot? Ground Hugging Aronia Berry? Fringe Tree, with fragrant flower and lil’ fruit? Japanese Ginger from Yakushima Island, Japan? Inkberry? Heirloom Peach most common in 1890s? Ramps? Franklin Tea Tree is extinct in the wild? And what’s Witch-hazel!?!?!
I visited Kollar Nursery in northern MD with a list of ~10 plants. I walked away with about 20 unusual plants!
Chapter descriptions
00:00 intro
01:20 Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis
01:30 Butternut, Juglans Cinerea
01:48 Black ‘Ground Hug’ Chokeberry, Aronia melanocarpa
02:16 Red Chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima'
02:37 Franklin Tree, Franklinia alatamaha
03:07 Fringe Tree, Chionanthus virginicus
03:31 European Ginger, Asarum europaeum
03:49 Japanese Ginger, Asarum kumageanum
04:13 Wild American Ginger, Asarum canadense
04:36 Inkberry Holly, Ilex glabra 'Shamrock'
04:54 Inkberry Holly, Ilex glabra ‘Compacta’
05:12 Italian arum, Arum italicum
05:30 Belle of Georgia Peach, prunus persica
05:51 Ramps, Allium tricoccum
06:11 Red Mulberry, Morus rubra
06:31 Eastern Wahoo, Euonymus atropurpureus
06:52 Witch-hazel, Hamamelis virginiana
07:18 Bonus: Agarita, Mahonia trifoliolata
07:36 planting Bloodroot & American Wild Ginger
More on all 18 unusual plants: heppy.org/18
Credits:
Missouri Botanical Garden (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/)
NC State University, NC Extension (plants.ces.ncsu.edu/)
Native American Ethnobotany (naeb.brit.org/)
Plants for a Future (pfaf.org/)
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in 2017 I started planting on a 2 acre abandoned property. We’re located only 10 miles south of the US Capitol but are surrounded by several hundred acres of forest and few homes. Our urban garden design, landscape architecture and permaculture techniques incorporate fruiting trees, fruiting shrubs, edible ground cover, edible flowers, and herbs and medicinal plants that will provide food for generations. It’s a long and slow ‘haul’ as we adapt, learn new things, and are (usually ;) enjoying the process.
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