Property News · October 1, 2016

Plant of the week: Inula hookeri


With its shaggy yellow daisy flowers, it’s a beautMaybe it’s the uninspiring name, but hooker’s inula (spin that to get the Latin title, Inula hookeri) hasn’t caught on yet. I don’t know why, because it’s a beaut. A wildlife-enthusiast friend asked me to track down a plant after spotting its shaggy yellow daisy flowers alive with butterflies last summer. Unlike the rest of the inula clan (you may be familiar with I. helenium, aka elecampane, which can top 2m), hooker inula is not huge; at about 60cm tall it’s good for smaller pollinator patches. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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