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'Tropical' Foliage plant ID
Hi folks,
I've been trying to achieve a tropical jungly look in one part of my garden. I went to Longleat the other day and in the Jungle Kingdom section, I found myself looking at the plants as much as (more than?) the animals. As I was ticking off plants I'd already got, I noticed these ground cover foliage plants (the plate leaved ones in the foreground of the picture). Can anyone tell me what they are please as I think they would be great to fill in some spaces.
Cheers
James
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young gunnera magnacata
Try Ligularia desdemona
I can't see a picture! What's happening now? It was all going so well....
Thanks. I think it looks more like the ligularia than gunnera as the gunnera leaves look more frilly in the google images.
Posy, I'm not sure where the picture's gone on your screen :-S maybe I'm such a bad photographer that it doesn't even appear on some screens lol.
can confirm not gunnera but don't know ligularias well
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I would say Ligularia too and they would be good jungly plants, but they are not ground cover in the way you mean,. They like moist soil and it looks fairly dry where they are in that pic. Given the right conditions they make hefty plants with yellow or orange daisy flowers and some forms have purplish backs to the foliage. L. przewalskii and The Rocket have tall slender spires of flowers, Desdemona, Othello and Britt Marie Crawford have giant single daisies. They need slug protection when young.
You could try some of the smaller Hostas for low ground cover, or Heucheras, for a bit of foliage colour, or Bergenias. The last two don't need moist soil and Hostas can live without it provided they don't dry out completely and have some shade.
Certainly looks like one of the Ligularias to me, although there are several species.
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