{"id":539,"date":"2021-04-06T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:06:33","slug":"how-to-grow-hydrophyllum-canadense-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/gardening\/flowers\/how-to-grow-hydrophyllum-canadense-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow Hydrophyllum canadense: tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hydrophyll of Canada (&nbsp;<em>Hydrophyllum canadense<\/em>&nbsp;) is a perennial plant almost unknown to most professionals, even specialized in the production of perennials and therefore, of course, to amateur gardeners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having cultivated it for over 15 years, I can attest to the robustness of\u00a0<em>Hydrophyllum canadense<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0This perennial plant is native to Canada mainly, although it is sometimes found in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, it is in New England that it is most frequent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It grows spontaneously in forests of deciduous trees established on limestone, in slightly shaded undergrowth, in fertile soil, rich in humus and constantly humid.\u00a0It forms sometimes large colonies, spreading quite slowly, covering the ground well with its large lobed leaves, which resemble maple leaves, of a beautiful bright green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.semsgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hydrophyllum_canadense_-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insensitive to diseases and pests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our white garden, she keeps company with the\u00a0<em>Hosta\u00a0&#8216;Royal Standard&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0, the\u00a0<em>Hesperis\u00a0matronalis var.\u00a0albiflora<\/em>\u00a0and the pretty\u00a0<em>Pachyphragma macrophyllum<\/em>to early flowering.\u00a0It grows as a small, rounded bush, very dense rather than a loose ground cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is due, I think, to the strong presence of clay in our soil, which makes it more fertile than its original soil.\u00a0It takes quite a while to establish, but when it does, it lives decades in place.\u00a0The white flowers appear in tight cymes in the heart of the foliage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are sometimes light purple and are followed by strange fruits, a sort of big round and thorny capsules.\u00a0The foliage disappears in winter and its resistance to cold is remarkable.\u00a0I don&#8217;t know of any predators or diseases.\u00a0Of course, she is not a &#8220;garden diva&#8221; like the hellebore, but in our park she participates in this biodiversity which is essential to any garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hydrophyll of Canada (&nbsp;Hydrophyllum canadense&nbsp;) is a perennial plant almost unknown to most professionals, even specialized in the production of perennials and therefore, of course, to amateur gardeners. Having cultivated it for over 15 years, I can attest to the robustness of\u00a0Hydrophyllum canadense\u00a0.\u00a0This perennial plant is native to Canada mainly, although it is sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}