Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock but rewards the careful gardener

but rewards the careful gardener

and the architecture of that spread

among them 'Whorled Class' and 'Miss Schiller's Delight'

sending up tall

a lean sunny border

Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock but rewards the careful gardenerThis plant is a botanical time machine. Sarcandra glabra belongs to the Chloranthaceae, a flowering plant family with only four surviving genera worldwide and a fossil record reaching back into the Early Cretaceous, more than a hundred million years ago. Pollen and floral fossils of the Chloranthaceae are among the earliest evidence of flowering plants anywhere on Earth, and the family was already abundant when the dinosaurs were only in their middle