Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Mother Nature and I have different opinions about how this border should be planted up. I’ve decided that the middle section should be largely filled with purple and orange flowers from mid-spring to summer – she’s rather more inclined towards green and white and yellow. I plant alliums and heucheras, roses and echinops, she scatters goosegrass, wild strawberries and bindweed throughout. Right now, I’m looking at the excellent Geum cultivar, ’Totally Tangerine’, that I’d long wanted in this space, butting up its distant, wild relative, wood avens, or Geum urbanum – the latter loves this garden and spreads with ease, the former, sterile, can only multiply itself vegetatively, and can take its time. The thing is, Mother Nature has a comprehensive and wide-ranging portfolio of tried-and-tested planting combinations to draw upon, and I’m still working on mine. Admittedly she has a head-start, but she’s very good at this stuff.
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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.
