Baby Gunnera

In my garden the perennial foliage plant Gunnera usually grows very large very quickly. This is a young Gunnera - a seedling which planted itself on the edge of the water race in Middle Garden.

Gunnera Seedling

Gunnera are dramatic plants as they grow to full size. You can see the more mature specimens in the pond photographs.

Gunnera and Hens in Middle Garden

Baby Gunnera look so cute and neat! With leaves and stalks of perfect size and proportion, they are like children - how we wish they could stay little and cute forever, and not transform into awkward angry teenagers.

Seedling Gunnera

The seedling Gunnera have been swept down the water from a large clump up-stream (not in the Moosey garden). In Canterbury this plant is not encouraged - in fact I believe that it is classified as an undesirable, and cannot be propagated for sale.

In this photograph, taken from across the water, the Gunnera is almost ready to die down for winter. You can see its leaves starting to turn yellow-brown.

Those two silly hens have been following my scratchings and plantings, and are taking a rest.