{"id":5361,"date":"2015-05-26T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:12:55","slug":"garden-obsession-big-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/plants\/garden-obsession-big-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Obsession: Big Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every garden needs some big-ass leaves. Who couldn’t use a little big-leaf eye candy to kick off the short work week? Tetrapanax ‘Steroidal Giant’<\/a> is kicking off the parade up top.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Plume Poppies<\/a> are really bringing it this year.
\n\"plume<\/p>\n

A Rodgersia podophylla<\/a> at a garden a couple years ago. I’m picturing this one at Gossler Farms, but my memory could be wrong.
\n\"rodgersia<\/p>\n

Darmera peltata<\/a> photo by Karl Gercens<\/a>.
\n\"darmera<\/p>\n

Astilboides tabularis<\/a> photo by Keeping it Green Nursery<\/a>.
\n\"astilboides<\/p>\n

The big leaved rhododendrons tempt and taunt, never making it very long in my garden. This here is Rhododendron praestans<\/a>, photo by Karl Gercens<\/a>.
\n\"rhododendron<\/p>\n

Gunnera never gets old. Gunnera manicata<\/a> photo by citron<\/a>.
\n\"gunnera<\/p>\n

Gunnera chilensis<\/a> photo by James Gaither<\/a>.
\n\"gunnera<\/p>\n

Oh, to have a Colocasia gigantea ‘Thailand Giant Strain’<\/a> that got this big. Photo by Karl Gercens<\/a>.
\n\"colocasia<\/p>\n

Or an Alocasia odora<\/a>. Photo by Brian’s Botanicals<\/a>.
\n\"alocasia<\/p>\n

All the bananas, Musa<\/a> or Ensete<\/a> are good for large leaf drama. Me, I mostly stick to hardy varieties rather than subject plants to my lazy over-wintering ways, but even I have managed to keep Ensete ventricosum ‘Maurelii’<\/a> alive indoors so I can get a nice tall, fat trunk. Not as big as these, photographed by Karl Gercens<\/a>, but I swear Lance Wright’s<\/a> plant in Portland was even bigger than these monsters.
\n\"ensete<\/p>\n

Magnolia dealbata<\/a> photo by James Gaither<\/a>.
\n\"MAGNOLIA<\/p>\n

Monstera deliciosa<\/a> photo by Raul654<\/a>. So we can’t grow them this big here, but a smaller version as a houseplant isn’t a bad runner up.
\n\"Monstera<\/p>\n

A few more biggos worth a gander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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