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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Jul 2020 6:53am, 15 Jul 2020 12,130 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark [google]. Oh, that's a gunnera! Bit big for me!
Dvorak Jul 2020 7:14am, 15 Jul 2020 20,210 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Ah. On they way into Glasgow, at a Y in the road, there used to be an area known as "the rhubarb patch" (now built upon). It seems likely that it was a patch of giant rhubarb, or gunnera.
Garfield Jul 2020 12:04pm, 15 Jul 2020 13,325 posts	Quote Pin Garfield Also had to google Gunnera...we have them on the banks of the canal path by where I live. They remind me of a giant rhubarb!!
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2020 12:40pm, 15 Jul 2020 18,899 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale I think they look dreadful, but it's not my garden.
Garfield Jul 2020 12:42pm, 15 Jul 2020 13,328 posts	Quote Pin Garfield I remember the first summer I saw them...looked like rhubarb on steroids. Huge things (fortunately out in the wild of the canal path...I do like them but they would be too big for my small garden.
Fragile Do Not Bend Jul 2020 12:52pm, 15 Jul 2020 6,346 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend I always assumed rhubarb was related to gunnera but it turns out I was wrong. (Well, they are distantly related, as all plants are )
Hanneke Jul 2020 8:35pm, 15 Jul 2020 70,611 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke Did you Google how fast the stuff grows Markymark? I have just come home and wandered to the back of the garden to look at the pond. I could swear that Gunnera has grown overnight! It certainly no longer looks sorry for itself!
Columba Jul 2020 9:07pm, 15 Jul 2020 20,014 posts	Quote Pin Columba You have a big garden, I think, Hanneke?
Markymarkmark Jul 2020 9:45pm, 15 Jul 2020 12,150 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark Hanneke, it said it was "prolific and robust"! And that you can chop the main rhizome in parts to produce more plants in future seasons. It does sound a pretty vigorous breed!
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2020 7:13am, 16 Jul 2020 18,903 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Sounds just like an invasive non-native species to me