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Larger growing than the European form, but otherwise very similar. It has a rather wider distribution in China, Russia and Korea than the name
might suggest (the Kamtchatka Peninsula dangles off the end of far eastern Russia in line with the string of
Kuril Islands that run down to Japan). For years it has grown in a big tub, but is much happier now I have planted it out. It flowers more profusely and dies back much later . In a tub the whole thing went yellow in July and had to be put out of sight. Larch Cottage Nursery say: "A variety of Asian and European native. Broad, lovely heart shaped, pleated leaves of deep green. Long upright flowering stems, bearing small fragrant, white flws with elongated stamens. Whole effect being reminiscent of an aesculus flower in miniature." |
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