Looking Good In June
What’s looking good this month?
The Water Garden
In summer months the Water Garden puts on an impressive display of colour. In June you’ll find the bright yellows and pinks of candelabra primula, as well as a number of varities of astilbe, or false goat’s beard, adding to the vibrant mix.
The arum-lilies, Zantedeschia aethiopica, have opened with their pure white spathes surrounding a bold yellow spadices and there may even be a late-blooming rhododendron flower overhead.
The Zig Zag
Next to the Water Garden on the Zig Zag, a spectacular rare Bromeliad and a relative of the pineapple, Puya chilensis has produced 2-3m high flower spikes which will open into neon bright chartreuse-green blooms.
In Chile, the flowers are pollinated by birds which sit on the outward pointing tips and drink the sweet nectar inside.
Dogwoods
June is the month the dogwoods flower; Cornus kousa and Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’ both have attractive creamy-white flower bracts that turn pink as they mature.
Two recent introductions to the garden are, Cornus ‘Miss Satomi’ above the amphitheatre with dark rose-pink bracts and Cornus ‘Venus’ which has bracts up to 15cm across.
Azolla Pool
By Azolla Pool there is a strand of Phyllostachys edulis – one of the most elegant, extraordinary and largest of the subtropical bamboos that thrive in Trebah’s warm microclimate.
The upright blue-green culms (canes) can attain a circumference of 30cm, grow up to 30cm a day and reach a height of 20m.
