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Gunnera magellanica
Gunnera magellanica
Price: $8.00 In Stock

4" Pot
A diminutive relative to the more familiar Jurassic Gunnera. This has a creeping habit making a low dense groundcover with rounded leaves. Herbaceous, the new leaves emerge in late March to April. It does flower albeit in the most insignificant manner with small pinkish brown feeble attempts. Loves a rich moist soil - mulch if bitter cold.
Gunnera monoica
Gunnera monoica
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Very cute little groundcover Gunnera literally overshadowed by its more familiar larger kin. This avoids the inevitable comparison by growing in New Zealand rather than South America where the big ones hold court. Loves a rich moist soil where it will carpet freely with dense overlapping rounded lightly coppery leaves. Little flower spikes with white fruit. This species and other Gunnera species have been shown to have a nitrogen fixing blue-green algae living inside them which provides the Gunnera with an in-house source of fertilizer. Protect if very cold.
Gunnera perpensa
Gunnera perpensa
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A less common and smaller scale Gunnera from the whole of eastern Africa where it grows in shallow water and muddy edges. The leaves can reach 2'-3' tall. The tiny pinkish flowers are borne on a long slender spike with female flowers on the bottom, guys on top and bi's in the middle. Party!
Gunnera tinctoria
Gunnera tinctoria
Price: $16.00 In Stock

Gallon Pot
Big dude with leaves up to 5' across. Bizarre flower cones evocative of times distantly primordial and the whole package begs to be the centerpiece of the Jurassic Garden. I can see it - Tree Ferns, Cardiocrinums, big leaf Rhododendrons and Podophyllums all playing off the Gunnera. Rich moist soil and mulch crown in winter. We layer the spent leaves over the crown and toss brown gold over that which makes for a nice blanket as well as good eating for the Gunnera. Brown gold? Dairy manure of course.