Ericaceous and Woodland Plants

Phillipe Levesque April 2003

Speaker Biography

Phillipe Levesque operates a nursery in Campbellton, New Brunswick, on the Miramachi River. He trained for several years in many well known gardens of England and France, notably with Beth Chatto, of Colchester in Essex.

It hardly needs saying that over the years our Society has been fortunate indeed in the quality of our guest speakers. Each of them has achieved a solid measure of achievement as scientists, writers, teachers, historians, but especially in their gardening knowledge and practice, whether amateur or professional. And they have shared another characteristic, namely, a fair length of age in their experience – ranging from some of middle years to others verging on the ‘early-ancient’. In our April meeting Phillipe Levesque treated us to a fine lecture on a broad spectrum of plants, sensitively chosen, well illustrated and in doing so, revealed himself as a very capable practitioner of the craft. At 23 years of age. We look forward to the future promise of this bright young plantsman.

Several members of the audience expressed interest in seeing a list of the plants, and Phillipe kindly provided the following:

Large perennials, companion of small to medium Rhododendrons

Trachystemon orientalis

Scopolia carniolica

Rodgersia podophylla ‘Saarbruchen’ and ‘Smaragd’

Kirengeshoma palmata and K. palmata f. koreana

Leucosceptrum japonicum

Thalictrum rochebrunianum

Treasures of the woodland

Arisaema ringens

Thalictrum koreanum

Iris foetidissima

Iris gracilipes

Pteridophyllum racemosum

Saruma henryi

Spigelia marilandica

Jeffersonia diphylla

Triosteum pinnatifidum

Synthyris missurica F. major

Trillium chloropetalum f. album, T. undulatum and T. luteum

Woodlanders tolerant of root competition and drought in summer

Dicentra cucullaria

Sanguinaria Canadensis ‘Multiplex’

Anemone X emanii (A.X lipsensis)

Rhododendron moupinense

Anemone sylvestris f. macrantha

Anemonella thalictroides type and ‘Green Hurricane’

Corydalis cheilanthifolia

Helleborus lividus, H.X sternii ‘Blackthorn Strain’ And H. thibetanus

Dodecatheon tetrandrum ‘Rotlicht’

Symphytum ibericum (S. grandiflorum)

Ranunculus ficaria

Lathraea clandestine

Tricyrtis selection

T. latifolia

T. ohsumiensis

T. ‘Togen’

T. affinis

T. hirta

‘Dark Blotch’

‘Silver Blue’

‘Myazaki’

‘Shiromatogisu’

‘Variegata’

golden form

T. macrantha spp. Macranthopsis

Anemonopsis macrophylla

Actaea pachypoda

Hammamelis ‘Jelena’

H. mollis ‘Pallida’

Ilex aquifolium ‘Angustatum’

Corylopsis pauciflora

Vaccinium sp.

Azalea mollis cv.