Kirengeshoma palmatum with its beautiful flowers

Family: Hydrangeaceae.

The genus name is Japanese, ki-rengeshōma (黄蓮華升麻); ki means ‘yellow’ and rengeshōma is a somewhat similar plant, the false anemone (Anemonopsis). 

A herbaceous perennial forming a clump to 1.2m, with palmately lobed leaves and dark maroon stems and nodding, fleshy, narrowly bell-shaped creamy-yellow flowers to 3.5cm in length in open panicles. Flowers from late summer to mid-autumn. Height 120 cm. Likes a sheltered site with acid, moist but well-drained soil in full - to partial shade.

October 2018

September 2018

July 2018

May 2018

                                                               Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Six new clematis will climb coming spring in Godot's Garden

End of August we received four and yesterday two of the plants we had ordered by Thorncroft Clematis in Norfolk, U.K.. Here below you see the photos, which we took from the website of the grower.
For a free download version of the Thorncroft Care Guide click here: https://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/PDFs/Thorncroft-CareGuide-2017-02-A5-web01.pdf

Clematis 'Edith'

Clematis 'Fair Rosamund'

Clematis 'Fuji Musume'

Clematis 'Gojō-gawa'

Clematis 'Haku Ookan'

Clematis 'Mercury'

Delphinium flowers for the second time

Delphinium x elatum 

'Magic Fountain'

Flowers from 29th May to 14th July, 2018

and again

from 6th September, 2018 onwards

                                                     Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Dicksonia antarctica

In the garden since 2009, it survived the frost of last winter and the heatwave of this summer.

Photographs © Hans van den Bos