I wrote this for pre-posting before visiting the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, where I actually managed to buy one of these.
Sometimes I spot a plant that I really, really want. A few weeks ago at Wisley, I saw a plant that I've been after since Carol Klein pointed it out on a Chelsea Flower Show programme a couple of years ago.
Recognise it?
It's the teeniest tiniest cutest little Gunnera you ever did see! It's the second smallest of the genus, G. magellanicum (I have yet to see a G. albocarpa, only 1-2cm long). And the RHS have obliged by putting it right next to G. manicata for scale...
There - the entire clump of the tinies is still smaller in terms of area than one of those triffid leaves.
And now here it is!
Can't wait to get it planted out.
Sometimes I spot a plant that I really, really want. A few weeks ago at Wisley, I saw a plant that I've been after since Carol Klein pointed it out on a Chelsea Flower Show programme a couple of years ago.
Recognise it?
It's the teeniest tiniest cutest little Gunnera you ever did see! It's the second smallest of the genus, G. magellanicum (I have yet to see a G. albocarpa, only 1-2cm long). And the RHS have obliged by putting it right next to G. manicata for scale...
There - the entire clump of the tinies is still smaller in terms of area than one of those triffid leaves.
And now here it is!
Can't wait to get it planted out.
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