Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Thunder rumbling from a threatening sky and the first heavy drops of intent falling on me, I’m squatting in a border with a camera to my face, entranced by the heleniums. Draw up a chair and sit with me a while as they transform surely before our eyes – now a tiny pincushion surrounded by a Kermit fringe of green sepals, now garlanded about with scalloped-edged scarlet petals, golden pollen-clad anthers emerging in a ring beneath a domed chocolate lid, now flames dancing beneath a sphere of bright yellow and deepest brown. ‘Moerheim Beauty’, this cultivar, almost certainly my favourite, and well worth risking a soaking for.
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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.
