Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
There’s a week or so before the spurge flowers, when it hunches over against the bitter March winds that billow through the garden, long leaves overlapped like armour plates, protectively shielding the flowering bracts. It’s a hardy, slightly alien presence in the borders, this Euphorbia characias subsp ‘Wulfenii’, with its sinuous stems and elongated foliage. Like the famous xenomorph of the movie franchise, it even bleeds acid, although its irritant, latex sap is more likely to give you a nasty rash than eat its way through a metal bulkhead. When it eventually flowers, filling the borders with huge, lime-green exclamation marks – it will take on a quite different character, but just for now I’m happy to enjoy its more contemplative state.
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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.
