like a moth to flame

Flowers of Chinese meadow rue, Thalictrum delavayi. I have 3 other species of Thalictrum in the garden but I’d always wanted this one. It took most of the summer to bloom but it was worth the wait. This is just a segment of the blooms. It’s pretty big.

Thalictrum delavayi, the Chinese meadow-rue is a herbaceous perennial native to the high mountains of SW China. It grows up to 1.2m tall, and the numerous leaflets and flowers make it a perfect garden plant in temperate regions.

Each fen in the hydrologically active counties of Ohio are extremely different, some follow feature similarities to other fens, like mound fens and deposit over scrapes and streamside fens are very plausible fens in most states; however, this one, Gallagher, one in a million. 

Imagine two aquifers conniving just at the right portion of a hillside section below a deep scrape and retreat line that would later be a deposited mixed sediment esker left from a glacier, only to gradually drain at a consistent level. Multiple sections of strict habitat types are observable: boreal complex woodland fen, mounding fen wet meadows also boreal complex, boreal complex glacial lowland marl flats that are fragile and open, boreal complex marl mud bank sedgemeadow scours, dry semixeric interval refugium as an oak-hickory-walnut savanna open on a hill reminiscent of dry meadows of the big darby plains, that meats a glacial retreat mixed flat woods/ sav ecosystem. Each are specific sections of refugium and delicate but open to interpretation. The outskirts that drain into the creek are more associated with streamside fen ecosystems.

In the pictures above we see an opening that is more reminiscent of our mound fens, extremely diverse, Thalictrum dasycarpum, tall white showy rue, as a focal point in the left image thriving. The backdrop is male fern, feminine fern, newyork fern, sensitive fern, dotted with early meadow phlox, sedges and rushes, the white is northern bed straw( almost ephemeral), as spotted joe pye and other tall meadow species reach for the sun. The seasons change gradually and the floristic inventory displays it’s self with non stop beauty only to reach a early September epiphany(my opinion some say mid July is apex). When youre here, note the fragile system at work, note the high diversity and enjoy your own interpretation. A guide must be there to explore other sections off boardwalk and trail due to this fragile ecosystem.

Note: Im extremely grateful for people like Jim Dickerson, Paul Knoop, Lucy Braun, and John Gallagher to be able to experience places like this.

As previously mentioned, I went to the Chelsea Flower Show last week. It is a very intense experience as there is so much to see but it is also so crowded, so many visitors as well as film crews. Every year, there are one or two plants that feature in a lot of the show gardens. This year, it was the turn of Thalictrum ‘Black Stockings’, this pink flower with dark grey stems. I thought it would go well with some of the moody purples in my garden and rushed to look it up on line. Often a new plant to me turns out to be unsuitable because it needs acid soil (mine is alkaline) or wet ground, mine is dry. Thalictrum was a different sort of disappointment though as the plant is normally 2m high. Somehow at Chelsea, all the plants were only 60cm or so. It’s wonderful show, but not always very accurate in its representation of plants!

What's poppin' in late February: Part 7 of 7

Dandelions, glowing in the afternoon sun! Taraxacum officinale Rue anemones, the first I've seen this year! Thalictrum thalictroides Trout lilies 5ever 💛💚💛💚💛 Erythronium umbilicatum

Rue Anemone Watercolor (Thalictrum thalictroides)

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The garden on June 8th

After a long, dry spell in May, June has been much wetter and the plants are quite grateful. Today, bright sunny spells have been broken up by heavy rainfall. I took the opportunity after one rain shower to take a few pictures. The bright light made the colours more vivid somehow.

1) Yellow Flag Iris

2) Frothy flowers of Thalictrum

3) Dahlia “Totally Tangerine” which is slightly too red in my opinion.

4) Rose “Tea Clipper”

5) Orlaya -which this year have been fantastic. Sown last September and planted out a few weeks ago.

6) A later allium. many have faded and are setting seed, but this one is just opening.

7) Unknown purple clematis clambering through the Cornus Capitata 

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Thalictrum ‘splendide’

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The garden is advancing. Meadow rue, baptisia, green dragon, and wild geranium are all showing up.

Mudstone conglomerate Pt1 Little Miami River

Thalictrum dioicum, Toxicodendron radicans, Sedum ternatum, Dolomedes albineus, and a very large amount of Dermatocarpon muhlenbergii.

I fully expect all of these plants/ spider/ and lichen to be common on rock features like this since it's perfect stable rocky habitat that experiences fairly wet conditions seasonally or rather gets sprayed occasionally, The level of disturbance is some what high in many cases but is variable with each one of these species. Poison ivy for example favors dryness and so does the early meadow rue growing with it but occasional removal of shade species near it is beneficial, Ide say the woodland stone crop prefers similar habit, and is most likely caused by missing these three species some how but flooding around them. The fishing spider cavity was actually near the high water mark on that rock and the rock was littered with them, this was just the only one with it's legs exposed. As for Muhlenberg's stipple back it loves spray and seasonally submerged systems of stable rocky habitat, where as sandstone stippleback/brook is a semi submerged obligate that needs near constant spraying and the white stipple back needs dry rocky habit only.

A few mementos from a hike last weekend on Cowpasture Trail at the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area.

From top: rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides), a delicate and fragrant bog orchid; mountain wood sorrel (Oxalis montana), a shade-tolerant perennial with an affinity for mossy nooks; round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), a carnivorous native of the local sphagnum bogs; tall meadow rue (Thalictrum pubescens), which produces loosely-clustered panicles of starry, white flowers; hemlock varnish shelf (Ganoderma tsugae), a beautiful shelf fungus with a lacquer-like surface; a ramp (Allium tricoccum) flower, which emerges from the forest floor in late June/early July after the plant’s leaves have died back; black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), also known as gloriosa daisy, one of summer’s finest wildflowers; and scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma), also known as Oswego tea, a stunning pollinator plant in the mint family much loved by hummingbirds.   

Rue Anemone by vulture on iNaturalist.

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