Bogs

This species has an amazing distribution across the entire holarctic region. The double form is now blooming at the Botanical garden. The close-up is our own selection we call 'Himalayan Snow'...it was grown from seeds collected in the Himalayas.

I wouldn't have either until I saw it growing in Loren Russell's bog some years ago. I still didn't really believe him but I had lots in pots for I could afford to lose a few experimenting. So that fall I put some bulbs in my carnivorous plant bog. I actually just nestled them into the living spaghnum moss on top. I figured they were likely gonners. Nope, next spring they popped up and bloomed. I still wasn't convince since the winter had been mild.

I grow two different species of Skunk Cabbage. The yellow L. americanus, Western skunk Cabbage and the white L. camtschatcensis, Asian Skunk Cabbage. The latter is the smaller of the pair.
I planted two different clones of Western Skunk Cabbage and they self sow all over my bog. The Asian version have I had only a short time but I hope this one will self sow too. Maybe I get hybrids as the two are known to hybridise.
In summer the leaves of L. americanus grow huge - 1m or more.

My little bog with huge plants is awaking.
1) One of the more conspicuous ones is Lysichiton americanum. I have different clones. The best clone produce the yellow spathe much earlier than the other and with less ordinary leaves. Two clones mean enormous seed production and idem seedlings (2).
The Asian equivalent, L. camtchatensis, is a little later and smaller and with white spathe (in the middle not blooming yet (1)).