Tuesday, April 01, 2008

APRIL GARDENFOOL'S DAY

happy april gardenfool's day! what is this flower? it's an upside-down epimedium acuminatum, upside-down so that it looks like a fool's hat! this photo was brazenly borrowed from the university of british columbia, vancouver, botanical garden website.

my favorite epimedium resource is darrell probst, who discovers new epimediums from china.

2 comments:

Kerri said...

Another group of plants to explore! The Darrell Probst site looks interesting. I couldn't get your link for the Uni to work.
The photo is a beauty, and does resemble an April Fool's hat. Very clever :)
Happy day after April Fool's Day!

em said...

Thanks, Kerri! Yup, Epimediums are a great shade plant to have, very pretty! And they increase nicely, but not invasively. I must have messed up the dang link!