Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
I fear yesterday’s post may have given an inaccurate picture of the planting in my garden. It’s only ever that tidy (sterile?) near the less intensively-planted, shrubbier parts, and towards the tail-end of winter when I’ve had a chance to reign-in the exuberances of the natural flora. The photo accompanying this post, with its jumble of forget-me-nots, erigeron, creeping buttercup, viola and a drunken Salvia uliginosa, is a far more representative view – and that’s not taking into consideration the self-sown nigella and cosmos that have yet to make an appearance. (I’ve not mentioned the moss and grasses – somewhere here there’s an edge I’ll have to find.) An uncharitable person might call it a mess, but I’d opt for something like ‘melange’, or perhaps, in more expansive mood, I might venture ‘tapestry’. Mother Nature, very much the senior partner around here when it comes to the planting, doesn’t really do neat. Complex, fractal, luxuriant – but never neat.
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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.
