Commonly known as hardy water canna, powdery alligator flag, or powdery thalia (Thalia dealbata). According to the Missouri Botanical Gardens, it is found in southeastern lowland regions from South Carolina to Missouri. Thalia is found in boggy areas and swamps and likes an organic loamy soil.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, TX photograph by Jeanette Hyden
Cooling oasis at the Arboretum includes native trees, a gurgling waterfall, stepping stones and water loving plants such as palmate leaved fatsia and include vertical lines usingIris pseudacorus or Thalia.
Beardless Iris
Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag) is a species of flowering plant of the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. The flowers are beardless and the rooting system is rhizomous.
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX photograph by Jeanette Hyden
Yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag, Iris pseudacorus,
around a pond.
Yellow flag is non-native in the U.S., and is spreading throughout the country.
Iris pseudacorusis a wetland plant that is especially showy during its short blooming period. This good-looking plant has been transplanted into well-watered gardens all over the world and has widely escaped; it is also used in sewage treatment, and is known to be able to remove metals from wastewaters. Like cat-tails, yellow iris colonizes into large numbers, forming very dense monotypic stands, outcompeting other plants.
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX photograph by Jeanette Hyden Yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag, Iris pseudacorus. Yellow flag is a water loving pond iris. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa
Commonly known as hardy water canna, powdery alligator flag, or powdery thalia (Thalia dealbata). According to the Missouri Botanical Gardens, it is found in southeastern lowland regions from South Carolina to Missouri. Thalia is found in boggy areas and swamps and likes an organic loamy soil.
Fort Worth Botanical Garden, TX. photograph by Jeanette Hyden
Thalia
Fatsia
A native of Japan, Fatsia japonica suits the Asian-inspired style of many modernist homes, making a bold foliage plant for the shade. Fatsia is a familiar houseplant that has made a transition to the outdoor landscape in warmer zones. The variegated leaves of ‘Aurea’ and ‘Variegata’ create a bright spot in shady gardens. The lace-doily leaves of ‘Manchu Fan’ are intricately lobed and nearly circular.
Fatsia japonica is from the Araliaceae Family (Aralia family)
This is grown as an ornamental, for its large eight lobed, palmate foliage
The umbel shaped flowers become a green fruiting cluster that turns a deep blue later in the season
Fatsia's deep blue fruiting cluster
References.
Geddes-Brown, Leslie. The Water Garden. London: Merrell, 2008. Print.
Paul, Anthony, and Yvonne Rees. The Water Garden. London: Frances Lincoln, 2001. Print.
Lang, Susan, and T J. Williams. Water Gardens. Menlo Park, Calif: Sunset Pub, 2004. Print.
May, Peter J. Designing and Creating Water Gardens. Ramsbury: Crowood, 2004. Print.
