Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
The dog days of summer never arrived this year and, as one season begins to give way to the next, I find myself peering into the hedgerows, and feeling distinctly autumnal about it. The blackberries are coming along nicely, the haws already blushing deep red, and the mother of all countryside vines – at once more robust and more decorative than both hedge and field bindweed – is beginning to expire fabulously. This is black bryony (Dioscorea communis), its long, twining stems snaking up like wire cables in spring from large, starchy white storage organs in the soil, and creeping up and through whatever it can find. In a couple of months time, all that will be left will be the fat, red and orange berries, strung through the hedges like Christmas lights.
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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.
