Allen: You probably would not think that I have to travel halfway around the globe to get a closer look at some of our North American native wildflowers. The kind we see growing along roadsides and in meadows. But here I am, at the Keukenhof Gardens in Holland. This is this country’s most famous and premiere display garden where I have discovered some familiar faces from back home. You Europeans have taken American natives and improve them and now we are growing them back at home in our gardens.
Male: I said that is correct. This is Rudbeckia hirta and how do you call it in America?
Male 1: Well, this would be a Black-eyed Susan.
Male 2: They are hybridized and selected and now they give more flowers, I think and the colors are perhaps a little better but I do not know the native exactly.
Male 1: And there are so many examples there.
Male 2: Eupatorium, I suppose.
Male 1: Yes, the big tall Joe pye Weed. Yes, I grow it in my garden as well.
Male 2: And do you have the Commelinaceae.
Male 1: Yes, the spider wort? A very good shade plant.
Male 2: And Floks, of course. We have hundreds of varieties cultivated from Floks – summer Floks and golden root.
Male 1: That is goes very tall in the state. Yes, the short dwarf ones are here and of course, one of my all time favorite is the purple cone flower.
Male 2: Oh, yes. It is over there.
Male 1: Yes. Yes, there it is.
Male 2: And even if the petals are disappeared, it is beautiful.
Male: Well, this garden may be best known for its spring displays what you can see here in the summer is nothing short of spectacular. From The Garden, I am Allen Smith.
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