Icy Blue. Siberian Bugloss, Brunnera macrophylla, Muiderstraat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Johannes Michael Friedrich Adams (1780-1838) in 1805 wrote descriptions of many plants found by the Russian naturalist and explorer Count Apollos Apollosovitch Mussin-Puschkin (1760-1805) during the latter's Siberian expedition of 1802. Adams called this bright blue flower Myosotis macrophylla, but it was renamed after Samuel Brunner (1790-1844) by Christian von Steven (1781-1863) in 1851. He writes that fine Swiss botanist Brunner had twice visited the Taurida Governate - wider Crimea - the native habitat of this plant. The name was established again by Ivan Murray Johnston (1898-1960) in 1924.
Here our plant is in a little pile-up of first snow this year in Amsterdam.
Icy Blue. Siberian Bugloss, Brunnera macrophylla, Muiderstraat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Johannes Michael Friedrich Adams (1780-1838) in 1805 wrote descriptions of many plants found by the Russian naturalist and explorer Count Apollos Apollosovitch Mussin-Puschkin (1760-1805) during the latter's Siberian expedition of 1802. Adams called this bright blue flower Myosotis macrophylla, but it was renamed after Samuel Brunner (1790-1844) by Christian von Steven (1781-1863) in 1851. He writes that fine Swiss botanist Brunner had twice visited the Taurida Governate - wider Crimea - the native habitat of this plant. The name was established again by Ivan Murray Johnston (1898-1960) in 1924.
Here our plant is in a little pile-up of first snow this year in Amsterdam.