Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Some of the beds in this garden are almost totally filled with plants that nobody paid for (no, we didn’t nick them). There’s the Alchemilla mollis that we’ve mostly divided, though some has self-seeded, and countless examples of the perennial wallflower Erysimum ‘Bowles mauve’ (take lots of cuttings of that one, they don’t last long). And here, in the photo, there’s a long line of Verbena bonariensis that all came from one flowerhead’s seeds, hastily sprinkled over a 9cm pot last autumn and pricked out into modules in the spring, together with a cutting of the massive Salvia involucrata ‘Hadspen’ that’s shortly to unleash its bright pink flowers on the garden. Multiplying your plant stock from seeds or cuttings is so rewarding – though I’m rather better at the latter than the former. There is no right or wrong, and it doesn’t matter if you’re good at both, great at growing from seed and hopeless at propagating from cuttings, or the other way round. Because sooner or later we all discover our individual plant-raising style, and find our own gardening groove. And who doesn’t love free plants?
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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.
