Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. I'm on vacation today. – Daniel
'Olympic Double' salmonberry is also known as Rubus spectabilis 'Flore Pleno' (the cultivar name 'Flore Pleno' is often used to denote double-flowering forms of plants).
If you're a local resident, you might like to know that this plant is available as part of a Rubus collection auction item in the upcoming Collectors' Plant Auction and Gala on Thursday evening. I think individual smaller plants will be available at either the Shop in the Garden or the Perennial Plant Sale (or possibly both!).
This is an absolutely stunning photograph.
Rubus spectabilis 'Olympic Double' - Z5 - RHS Index of Garden Plants, Griffiths
Rubus spectabilis 'Olympic Double' - Z5-8 - A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Brickell, Cole, Zuk
Daniel is this a scan of the plant? It's gorgeous -- that black background really punches up the color
I love this dramatic version of our own native salmon berry! A beautiful member of this species resides in the native garden, n'est pas?
For is not the 'black background' water?
That is a truly phenomenal image!
See my blog for information/links about how to scan and galleries of images here: http://www.remarc.com/craig/?p=97
Here's an arrangement scan of flowers blooming April 15 in my garden: http://www.remarc.com/craig/?p=105
Maureen, yes, this is a scan (and yes, elizabeth, this is from the plant in the Native Garden - surreptitiously snipped for me to scan at home for BPotD since I ran out of time on Friday to take a photograph of it).
Absolutely- stunningly beautiful
This comment is late in the day (Sept 2009) but it's worth noting that the origin of this plant is on record. According to the accession records of the University of Washington Arboretum, it was found by Dr. R. C. Creelman of Bremerton, Washington about May 1, 1961, at the mouth of the Duckabush River, which falls into the Hood Canal on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The Arboretum acquired their specimen in 1963 and the cultivar name used in Brian Mulligan's 1977 catalog of the Arboretum's collection is 'Olympic', not 'Olympic Double'.
Wow, I'll never look at our little salmonberry bush the same way -- this variety is doubly beautiful! Thanks for sharing this photo.
I'm thrilled to have at last identified this pretty shrub that is busily flowering today, in my coastal garden in Wales!Thanks for the background info. ....Teresa.