Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
This honeybush (Melianthus major) overlooking the trial fields at Wisley will shortly spring back into life. Or else it’ll cark it. It’s always a bit of a lottery at this time of year.
As gardeners, we probably shouldn’t take comfort in how bloody awful other people’s plants look, but when they’re in a posh garden, this kind of thing can often be a source of comfort. It’s not Schadenfreude. Rather, it’s the knowledge that even the finest horticultural minds can overlook a specimen, or perhaps simply suffer something in a border to look like a bunch of dead sticks. When, while visiting the RHS gardens at Wisley earlier in the week, we came across a Melianthus major that looks precisely like the wreck of a thing currently gracing my garden (5 percent green, 95 percent brown and crinkly), I almost danced a joyful jig.
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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.
