A vigorous, shade tolerant, truly evergreen ground cover of neat habit, and resistant to Mid-America’s climatic adversities was years ago, only a dream.In 1934 a dreamer and unusual plant curator from the central Midwest, Dr. Edgar Anderson of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, was “browsing” in the far corners of the world. From Europe he brought home many varieties of ivy. Two of those from the Balkans had by 1945 survived here and proved worthy of formal introduction and naming. To one of these Hedera helix of the Ginseng family he gave the name ‘MBG Bulgaria} (The MBG comes from Missouri Botanical Garden.)He had found it growing vigorously in the deep shade of a beech forest behind the Rila Monastery at the head of a valley in the Bulgar mountains. This is a land of rigorous winters and languorous summers. Now for 20 years ‘the ivy has been growing vigorously in the Mausoleum grounds near the old Shaw residence of the Missouri Botanical Garden. It remains verdant and live looking winter and summer. As a ground cover it is attractive with its uniform six-inch height and horizontal leaves averaging four inches wide, shallowly lobed, and not prominently veined…. Read full this story
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