Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen. As a phrase, it’s probably not going to top the list of the most useful gardening aphorisms, but it certainly seems to work in certain cases. Take my much hankered-for Begonia luxurians, which grew one immensely tall and gangly stem from which it would produce new, beautiful palmate foliage, just before the lowest leaf went crinkly and dried out. Desperate measures were called for and, trusting in the begonia’s prodigious ability to produce roots from almost any wound, I chopped the stem into several lengths before unceremoniously stuffing the cut ends back into the compost. A few months later, and even the mankiest looking division is showing signs of life, and the pot has gone from hosting a solitary beanpole to a veritable thicket.
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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.
