Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Someone, it seems, has been splashing mustard about the garden. Even on this lamentable excuse for a summer’s day (woolly jumper presently deployed), the goldenrod (Solidago spp.) is daubing yellow all around in broad strokes, refusing to be daunted by the indifferent grey skies overhead. It’s not a plant that takes well to being told what to do; this one I planted in that bed, through which it happily romped until I decided it would need an annual pruning at the roots to keep it even vaguely contained. Of course, its response was to broadcast its seed widely, and hence its arrival in the current spot, where I noticed – and then ignored – its young shoots emerging in spring, keen to see what it would do. Grow, and then flower unapologetically, of course, as I might have expected.
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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.
