Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Colour having largely departed, winter presents the ideal opportunity for getting to grips with the brambles in your garden, there being far fewer places for the semi-evergreen foliage of the questing primocanes to hide. “A-HA!” I cry victoriously, heading off to hoik out by the roots an offending plant starkly revealed in the act of clambering through a shrub, this particular prickly customer betrayed by the bare cinnamon stems of scented arrowwood (Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’). I snip, and dig, and eventually the thing is out and, though when brambles come they come not single spies, I tell myself that at this rate I’ll soon have gained the upper hand by unearthing so many of these Things That Don’t Belong. “Except, of course, they do,” murmurs a small voice somewhere in the back of my mind, “quite as much, if not more so than you on this Kentish soil, London Boy.” I spy another and, secateurs raised, quickly close the ground between us. “Interloper!” I growl, attempting to ignore the uncomfortable impression of a brambly eyebrow being raised wryly in my direction.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
