Sue wrote:
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message
oups.com...
This is now its (rhubarb's)
second season in my garden, and it is absolutely flourishing in a
ginormous kind of way - making my badly located gunnera look like a
prickly alchemilla....

Our rhubarb grows by the small pond at the front of the rockery and it is
like a patch of gunnera but you can it eat too!!!!


My gunnera is a plant I fell in love with in a friend's garden, which
is shaded and has a little stream going past. The plant has its feet
in boggy ground, and in mid summer it is a good3 to 4 m high, with
leaves 1.50m across. I just love its sheer exoticism.
So, I bought myself one, and planted it in a bed where it would look
wonderful if it gave it its all - but that's kind of tricky on well
drained soil in full sun :-( Oh, and I guess the rather harsher
winters here than in my friend's place on the edges of Cork harbour
makes a difference too :-(((
I know this is a daft thing to do, and will probably be rapped on the
knuckles here for cruelty to plants...
Still, it looks ok, like a slightly small and prickly rhubarb...

Cat(h)