Description
Very fragrant, recurved white trumpets with gold bands radiating from the center down the middle of each petal, decorated with red spots. Blooms in late summer.
Lilium auratum Gold-band lily, Yamayuri in Japan Z 5-8
$13.25/barerootVery fragrant, recurved white trumpets with gold bands radiating from the center down the middle of each petal, decorated with red spots. Blooms in late summer.
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Native: central & southern EuropeNamed by Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805-1867)
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Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Platycodon is Greek from platys meaning “broad” and kodon meaning “bell”, referring to the shape of the flower. Cultivated in China for hundreds of years where it is called Jie-geng. The Chinese used the root boiled to cure a chill in the stomach. Mentioned in Man’yoshu, a Japanese anthology of poems written in the 8th century. German botanist Johann Gmelin first collected this in Siberia in 1754. Gmelin’s Siberian mission, sponsored by Catherine the Great, took 10 years and nearly killed him. Gmelin introduced it to European gardens by 1782. Robert Fortune found the white form in a nursery near Shanghai and sent it to England in 1845.
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Size: 2-3’x 12”
Care: part shade, cool, moist soil
Native: Europe
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Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksThe name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus. The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld. Believed to make a potion that helped witches fly. Identified by Dioscorides in De Materica Medica for medicinal use c. 70 A.D. Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” Used by physicians in 1200’s and to poison wolves: “This Wolf’s bayne of all poisons is the most hastie poison.” Wm. Turner, 1560’s. Called Monkshood due to the shape of each flower like a monk’s hood. Introduced to the new world by John Winthrop in 1631.
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