Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
I’ve been talking with friends about thugs today. The kind in whom you identify a certain promise that perhaps no one else quite sees – the kind you invite into your garden – the kind that make themselves at home and then some, who concentrate on getting their feet under the table (rather, into the soil) and, once established, begin upon a course of empire building. This afternoon’s subject was montbretia, but come early evening, I found myself admiring the pagoda flowers of the pheasant berry (Leycesteria formosa) with their white petals and wine-coloured bracts, followed by berries of the deepest purple. It grows like stink into a towering, arching plant at least two metres high, and seeds itself about into the bargain. But really, it’s a charmer, and that’s how it gets by.
A year of garden coaching
To find out more about my my 12 month online garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the first to hear when enrolment opens up again for the spring.
Click here to sign up for daily #gardeninspo365 posts and blog updates direct to your inbox.
Sign up for the monthly newsletter below
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.
