Bergenia ‘Profusion’

An old cultivar from c.1880 historically attributed to Thomas Smith but disputed by Peter Yeo and Charles Nelson due to a lack of evidence in the Daisy Hill nursery catalogues and the lists published in Flora and Sylva. Attribution to Smith is therefore considered an error. However, both the Index Hortensis and Stuart and Sutherland (1989) give 1880 as the date of origin, which if it was raised by Smith, means he would have done so while working at Rodger, M’Clelland and Co pre-1880.

It has attractive, bright apple green, cordifolia-like foliage with strongly overlapping basal lobes that slowly open with age, and a pink flushed crenate-dentate margin. Flowers are yet to be observed.