Korean Angelica
September 8th, 2006 
by Susan Harris
Anne Raver waxes poetic in the NYTimes about one of my favorite plants but doesn’t show her readers what it looks like, an omission I’m here to correct. It’s huge, biennial and very weird.
I had an interesting two-year relationship with one that I brought home from a local plant swap. Its contributor was the former top hort person at the American Hort Society, so I jumped at the chance to try something she thought was interesting. Thinking back, I may have jumped o
ver several other participants in my lust for this plant - or was it knocked over? I can’t remember.
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September 8th, 2006 at 9:56 am
That NY Times link has the most beautiful online garden photos I’ve ever seen - wonder how they do it without have high-res files slow down their page loading?!
September 9th, 2006 at 9:24 am
lovely color and interesting textures! thanks for sharing.
September 9th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Whatever it takes to get the plant you want, whatever it takes.
September 9th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
What was so interesting about your 2-year relationship? Obviously, it had to be somewhat fulfilling since you kept it around–you’ve piqued my curiousity!!!
September 9th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Okay, Kim, I guess I did leave out some info. It was interesting to me b/c I had no idea what to suspect and the results were so surprising. When I got the plant it was quite unimpressive. First year, stayed unimpressive, foliage-only, growing in an inconspicuous place.
Second year - watch out for Godzilla! It became 6′ tall with 2′ wide leaves and bizarro flowers. It suddenly needed a more prominent and spacious home in my garden. For its next act I was hoping for seedlings but didn’t get any. So now you know.
September 10th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Cool… I like relationships that keep you on your toes! *grin* Thanks for answering.