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Keywords: Hydrangeaceae | Schizophragma hydrangeoides Sieb. & Zucc. | 023763-0348-1984
One of the highlights of the Asian Garden at UBC is the climbing woody vines. Although I'm still struggling to get a worthwhile photograph of one from a distance (not an easy feat in the woodlands of the Asian Garden), I can at least share this close-up of a soon-to-bloom Japanese hydrangea vine, a woody climber native to both Japan and Korea.
To learn a little more about Schizophragma hydrangeoides, see the garden's interpretative sign. For a gardening perspective (and an image of the plant “climbing” a wall), visit the Kemper Center for Home Gardening via Missouri Botanical Garden.
Gardening questions about this and other climbers & vines can be posted to the UBC Vines & Climbers discussion forum.
Photography resource link: Expose to the Right, an article from Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape. I've been attempting this practice more often than not lately, but I'm finding it a fairly risky technique as it is very easy to overexpose a particular channel – it's easier on very expensive cameras that display the histogram for every channel.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at June 27, 2006 2:35 AM
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Posted by: Gordon Worley at June 27, 2006 4:41 AM
What a wonderful plant for my HY collection - as I am a little 'schizo' myself. I hope I can find a good supplier for this one!
Posted by: Karla at June 27, 2006 8:24 AM
Schizophragma hydrangeoides - Z5 - RHS Index of Garden Plants, Griffiths
Schizophragma hydrangeoides - Z5-9 - A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Brickell, Cole, Zuk
Posted by: Beverley at June 27, 2006 8:33 AM
I have this growing luxuriantly on a trellis around my patio. It's 10 years old and finally flowered last year and this year- one flower only! But worth waiting for.
Posted by: Barbara at June 27, 2006 9:27 AM
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, those mobile-like bits aren't petals but bracts (though I can't tell exactly what the bracts are subtending - seem to me there should be more of them). The unopened flowers are those little yellowish clumps in the middle of the photo.
Posted by: Eric Simpson at June 27, 2006 2:39 PM
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I like this picture. The petals remind me of a modern-art mobile I might see hanging in the atrium of an office building or museum.