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Chillin' In The Garden
This Kerria has been extant for a little over a hundred years. This is my best guess as it was moved from farm to farm by my mggm (and so on down the line). They are a great shrub for areas where nothing else is planted (they like to spread), but is easy to control. It can be propagated by cuttings (though rooting will take a few months). I just jam holes in the ground with a wrecking bar where I think they might survive and heel in the cuttings. This particular cultivar is Kerria Japonica Pleniflora. There is also a white flowering cultivar, K.J. Alba. They bloom in both May and Sept. If you are nice to them (more light than we have) they will be covered with blooms.
I grew up being told that this plant was a Texas Rose. I saw a huge one in the `exurbs' of Yokohama and asked about it. This led to a bit of humor at my expense, but I was `enlightened'. I'm still trying to find out if everyone started calling them a Texas Rose during WW2 (kinda `freedom fry' effect) or if they were always marketed south of the Mason Dixon line (mother's family TN.) as a Texas Rose (even more questionable motive).
Apparently K.J. is being researched for anti inflammatory properties (it is a native of China):
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a792859983~db=all~jumptype=rss
This is a link to a little more info and better pic. (no, I know nothing about the nursery, and I think the price is a little high):
http://www.carrollgardens.com/eNewsletter/2005/08/050825-lib.asp
Oh, and it is a ROOsacea...
I grew up being told that this plant was a Texas Rose. I saw a huge one in the `exurbs' of Yokohama and asked about it. This led to a bit of humor at my expense, but I was `enlightened'. I'm still trying to find out if everyone started calling them a Texas Rose during WW2 (kinda `freedom fry' effect) or if they were always marketed south of the Mason Dixon line (mother's family TN.) as a Texas Rose (even more questionable motive).
Apparently K.J. is being researched for anti inflammatory properties (it is a native of China):
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a792859983~db=all~jumptype=rss
This is a link to a little more info and better pic. (no, I know nothing about the nursery, and I think the price is a little high):
http://www.carrollgardens.com/eNewsletter/2005/08/050825-lib.asp
Oh, and it is a ROOsacea...
