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Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) on Alexandra Noble’s Balcony of Blooms at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Raspberries on sticks. That’s the rather prosaic description that springs instantly to mind when I see a sanguisorba in flower, though the unflattering description in no way diminishes my enjoyment of the plant – a raspberry on a stick being ideally suited to the job of bobbing and swaying in the breeze, an occupation common to many of my favourite plants. But while Sanguisorba minor (salad burnet) exhibits flowers typical of the genus (albeit on a significantly shorter stem than many of its ornamental relatives) it’s really the foliage that stands out for me – a fresh green, pinked at the edges in a way that reminds me more of decorative pastry leaves than cloth, with a taste that hints at cucumber, only with a bit of a kick. Pefect in a summer drink, or an early autumn tipple.
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