Petasites japonicus

We've had a week of rainy weather and the #fuki have become monsters. There's a little bit of daffodil leaves poking out there at the bottom. 17 May 2024 #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #tripplebrookfarm #loveswater

The #fuki is already big and it's only 5 May 2024 #coltsfoot #butterbur #petasites

Interesting name . 🤔 be careful how you pronounce it !!

Wow 😮 @charlotte 😂😂😂

#fuki blooms like pompoms 14 Mar 2024

Did you say these are edible? They're very striking

The stems of the big leaves are edible @emch but I haven't tried them yet.

The #fuki are blooming like crazy now. 14 Mar 2024

#fuki #bloom #upclose 3 Mar 2024

#fuki #bloom 3 Mar 2024

#fuki flowers popping up. I counted over 30 flower heads. 3 Mar 2024 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot

The #fuki bed is decomposing its leaves at this point in the year. It's nearly dormant. I went there today to dig up some roots so I could grow more fuki at the bottom of the hill where I put the ramps. It's a low spot that collects water and produces lots of mosquitoes in the summer. Fuki loves damp soggy places, so hopefully the fuki will soak up the water and solve my mosquito problem. Every time I summon the energy to go outside, I'm rewarded with something new to notice...

... such as these fuki flower buds. I didn't know the buds form in the fall and are visible. I feel sure that I didn't observe this last year. 26 Nov 2023 #observation #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #tripplebrookfarm

We've had a few soaking storms this spring and the #fuki are loving it. It's only April and they're already bigger than they were last year.23 Apr 2023 #butterbur #coltsfoot #tripplebrookfarm #petasites

Happened to catch a #fuki leaf emerging & unrolling 10 Apr 2023 #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #tripplebrookfarm

The #fuki has neatly arranged itself into rows. 10 Apr 2023 #perennial #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #tripplebrookfarm

Tiny #macro flowers on the #fuki 28 Mar 2023 @jastyn #microbotany #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #ittybitty #teenytiny

And yet it’s #giant at the same time 😄 @sushiwaitress

awesome shot!

Found a fifth #fuki flower at the far end of the floody flowerbed. 28 Mar 2023 #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #perennial

Four #fuki blooms this spring, yay! Last spring there were two. 12 Mar 2023 #butterbur #coltsfoot #petasites

Lost a lot of #fuki leaves during the dry summer. But it's not dead yet! 10 Sep 2022 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot

It's still only May and the giant #fuki is bigger than it was all year last year! 27 May 2022 #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm #petasites #butterbur #ilikebigleavesandicannotlie

It's still only May and the giant #fuki is bigger than it was all year last year! 27 May 2022 #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm #petasites #butterbur #ilikebigleavesandicannotlie

#fuki leaves are now about 18" across -- and it appears the deer aren't bothering it either! 15 May 2022 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm

#fuki #leaves are as big as dinner plates already! 29 Apr 2022 #butterbur #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm #petasites #foliagefriday #foliage

The two #fuki plants I put into this bed in December 2020 have spread across the whole #raisedbed 23 Apr 2022 #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm #petasites #butterbur

Love the raised bed!! It looks great 😊💕

#fuki leaves coming up all up and down the raised bed. This is its second year here -- can't wait to see how big it gets. 15 Apr 2022 #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm #petasites #butterbur

Fully opened #fuki flower 12 Apr 2022 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm

The #fuki #bud is blooming 9 Apr 2022 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm

The #fuki #bud is blooming 9 Apr 2022 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #perennial #tripplebrookfarm

Yay! Confirmation that my #fuki not only made it through the winter, but it also successfully pushed up through the layer of straw and wood chips I put down over it last fall. I raked away a bit two weeks ago to see if it was struggling to get through, but saw no sign of it then. 8 Apr 2022 #petasites #coltsfoot #butterbur #perennial #ediblelandscaping #tripplebrookfarm

#fuki did pretty well for its first year. A few nibbles by a few different critters, but the deer pretty much left it alone. Can't wait to see how big it gets next year. #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #ediblelandscaping #tripplebrookfarm 3 Sep 2021

I have been fighting weeds in this raised bed all season. It never got mulched so it's been a mess. (Swipe left to see) In a use-what-you-have approach, I've been pulling the weeds and just laying them down on the surface of the soil so they'd dry out and die and maybe become part of the solution.

Other parts of the yard have become overwhelmed with weeds (no photos of that, haha), and my mom and sister came over and we ripped a lot out. After about a week it occurred to me that the pile of dead weeds was basically free mulch that i could use for the raised bed.

I've been trying to adopt #permaculture principles as I deal with the quirks of this land. Baby steps, slowly, I'm a total beginner. This raised bed illustrates two things I've learned so far: (1) the problem is the solution, and (2) don't let organic matter leave your property.

"The problem is the solution" means that the thing that I have an overabundance of, the thing that feels like a problem, it's actually a RESOURCE, and it's an opportunity to change my perspective and look for a creative way to make this annoying thing useful. Lots of embarrassing weeds? Free mulch to solve my weed problem in the raised bed.

#the-problem-is-the-solution #learnsomethingneweveryday #alwayslearning #lessonlearned #reuse #mulch #mulching #weed #weeds #usewhatyouhave

#fuki getting big! Yay! 18 June 2021 #butterbur #coltsfoot #tripplebrookfarm #groundcover #ediblelandscaping #petasites

#fuki getting big! #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #tripplebrookfarm 31 May 2021

Big as my hand now. Hurry up #fuki you're supposed to shade out all of these weeds! #butterbur #petasites #coltsfoot 30 Apr 2021 #tripplebrookfarm

#fuki #leaves almost as big as my hand 16 Apr 2021 #petasites #butterbur #coltsfoot #tripplebrookfarm

Hooray! My #fuki made it through the winter! #hardy #coldhardy #petasites #tripplebrookfarm 8 Apr 2021

Super excited about this #tripplebrookfarm purchase: giant sweet #coltsfoot, also called japanese #butterbur, or #fuki. The stems I'm told are edible, but I'm mainly growing this because it makes huge dramatic leaves, is winter hardy, and doesn't mind wet feet. I ordered one, they sent two in quart size pots. 12 Dec 2020 #petasites

Is this the same outfit that sent you 9 strongberries when you only ordered 8?

Yes. They sent me an extra strawberry, an extra wild ginger, and an extra fuki. They're not cheap, but they ship good sized plants in 4" pots with soil. My order was $119 including the $15 for shipping. The fuki were in quart pots. Five stars, would order again. @emch

Wow!!!

@emch i just checked my order: I'd ordered SIX strawberries but received NINE!

*swoon*

Wow. Christmas bonus. 🎄🎄

Super excited about this #tripplebrookfarm purchase: giant sweet #coltsfoot, also called japanese #butterbur, or #fuki. The stems I'm told are edible, but I'm mainly growing this because it makes huge dramatic leaves, is winter hardy, and doesn't mind wet feet. I ordered one, they sent two in quart size pots. 12 Dec 2020 #petasites