{"id":14349,"date":"2018-08-03T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T08:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2022-11-06T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:21:24","slug":"kews-british-view-of-american-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/kews-british-view-of-american-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"British View of American Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago in the pre-Trump era the west lawn at the British Museum\u00a0 showed plants from North Americas landscape. The plants were provided in partnership with Kew but the photographs were mine taken in September.<br \/>\nI now wish I had also visited to see and take pictures of earlier spring and summer flowers fro N America.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"American tickseed, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047718384\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8033\/8047718384_0b9f5d8f11.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 065\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amongst the more colourful flowers were a range of &#8216;tickseed&#8217; which is the American name for <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gardeners-tips-on-coreopsis\/\">Coreopsis<\/a>. I like to grow these airy prairie plants even in darkest Yorkshire and you may see why from these photos.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Coreopsis, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047716477\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8461\/8047716477_8f54989cd2.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 084\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trust me to get a photo of mildew! Must try again.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Coreopsis, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047713929\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8176\/8047713929_34bb0ab08b.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 064\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Museum garden had a lot going on in both leaf and flower forms.<br \/>\nThe signage was good but it wasn&#8217;t obvious to me which of three zones each plant portrayed; Woodland, Prairie or Wetland.<br \/>\nI am sure the wetland was represented by the wonderful insect eating Pitcher plants.<br \/>\n<a title=\"London liverpool st 036 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047710485\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8035\/8047710485_94a78ac2d8.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 036\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Older Pitcher plants below.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pitcher plant flowers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047714920\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8034\/8047714920_54d9510ef1.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 037\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"British Rockies, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047710219\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8169\/8047710219_3c97b71cca.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 033\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am sure it wasn&#8217;t intentional on the part of Kew to include these <strong>British Rockies<\/strong>. I am sure the real thing are more awe inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"London liverpool st 076 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047715563\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8038\/8047715563_6bcfc66456.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 076\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For me the September light set off these New England Asters a proper treat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"London liverpool st 061 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047713489\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8315\/8047713489_50dddb6975.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 061\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/echinacea-and-cone-flower-varieties\/\">Cone flowers<\/a> Echinacea purpurea held there own!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"London liverpool st 057 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8047716890\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8038\/8047716890_044fa56b73.jpg\" alt=\"London liverpool st 057\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orange Coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida. The seeds feed finches and Native Americans used a wash from the plant for snake bites, earache and for a variety of other medicinal purposes.<br \/>\nFirst known in England in 1789 when they were described by Wm Aiton the first curator at Kew and &#8216;His Majesty&#8217;s Gardener at<br \/>\nKew and Richmond &#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The west lawn at the British Museum will continue to show plants from North America landscape until the end of November. The plants were provided in partnership with Kew but the photographs were mine taken in September. I now wish I had visited to see and take pictures of earlier spring and summer flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,10,244,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-sculpture","category-flowers","category-garden-visits","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21285,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions\/21285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}