Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
One of those meetings where you can’t quite place the individual before you, though something about them seems so familiar. Perhaps a nervous tick, a way of holding the head and regarding you after speaking, or something altogether more nebulous that has you reaching to place them. For me, plant encounters are full of such frustrations – here, everything from the spray of small white flowers to the zig-zagging path of the stems between each node had was yelling KNOTWEED at me, and though clearly not Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), it looked very much like something from the family Polygonaceae. Not woody enough to be shrubby, not really bog-brushy enough to be a bistort... but maybe that was getting closer and, sure enough, under the ‘Ps’ in Great Dixter’s nursery listings, Persicaria alpina (syn. P. polymorpha, or Koenigia alpina). It’s a handsome face to be able to put a name to.
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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.
