Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Spurges generally don’t get to come into the house. They’re great in the garden – the architectural form of Euphorbia characias with its wonderful glaucous foliage, the little milkweeds (Euphorbia peplus) that spring up everywhere with little encouragement, the zingy freshness of the cushion spurge Euphorbia polychroma – all flowering with a zesty burst of chartreuse which is seen nowhere else but on the flowers of lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis). But over Christmas, we welcome the poinsettia into our homes, wearing its flame red bracts as a subterfuge in an attempt to obfuscate its kinship. But Euphorbia pulcherrima is as much a spurge as the forementioned, sharing the irritant, latex sap and the propensity for people to mistake the bracts surrounding its oddly naked flowers for brightly coloured petals. Still other spurges, mistaken for cacti (Euphorbia trigona, for example) have yet to be added to the indoor jungle. Perhaps that can be my first resolution for the new year.
A year of garden coaching
I’m very excited about my new venture – it’s a way for me to work with more people than I can physically get around to, helping them to make the very best of their gardens in a way that suits the life they lead. If you’d like to find out more, please click here to book for a January 2020 start.
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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.
