If you don’t like a knotweed, you’d probably be a bit frustrated with the planting at Chelsea this year…
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A wander through the streets of Rye where I encounter a persicaria I’d not before met…
Read moreDay 227: ban urban pesticides
A petition has been doing the rounds; created by Professor Dave Goulson, it aims to put an end to the indiscriminate spraying of chemical pesticides in urban areas…
Read moreDay 212: Persicaria 'Purple Fantasy'
Here’s a fancy knotweed – Persicaria runcinata ‘Purple Fantasy’. I can’t remember quite where I first saw it – perhaps in one of the glorious container displays by the porch at Great Dixter – but I knew it would soon be in my garden…
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