Lindheimer’s beeblossom, or gaura to many of us, was reclassified as Oenothera lindheimeri back in 2007…
Read moreDay 222: Stromanthe sanguinea ‘Triostar’
Almost certainly I’m on a hiding to nothing with this plant. But... just look at it. I was powerless to resist…
Read moreDay 221: summer weeding madness
High summer in the garden, and the bindweed continues its conquest of our beds and borders…
Read moreDay 220: Hot Lips
Some salvias are tender and require winter protection, but ‘Hot Lips’ – a cultivated variety of Salvia x jamensis – manages to survive the whole year through planted outdoors…
Read moreDay 219: horseweed
Canadian fleabane, or horseweed (Erigeron canadensis), seems to be the poor relation to its Mexican counterpart…
Read moreDay 218: rose campion
Right around now, as August arrives and many of the plants in the borders – congratulating themselves on another good job done – are beginning to get seedy and a little tired…
Read moreDay 217: montbretia
Two things are undeniably true about montbretia, that pernicious crocosmia (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora)…
Read moreDay 216: hogweed
When the hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) starts to go to seed, you know that summer’s days are numbered…
Read moreDay 215: seedy and weedy
Two words in the horticultural lexicon receive short shrift when transferred into everyday parlance…
Read moreDay 214: lavender snip
Nobody likes me for suggesting the lavender needs cutting back in August. It’s looking glorious right now…
Read moreDay 213: raspberry thief
Here in the southeasternmost corner of the UK, we’re all still waiting for the summer that’s yet to arrive with anything like conviction. Today, we tumble into August…
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