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Spiny surprises
There are lots of lovely eryngiums for gardeners: this is my favourite. Positively dangerously spiny, this marvellous assemblage of bleached-out looking bracts make a serious garden statement. Biennial, self-sowing if you don’t get around to it, it offered me a … Continue reading
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Tagged drugged bees, Eryngium, Gertrude Jekyll, pollen beetles, thistles
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Sowing seeds for winter
Sad that fattening things like chocolate brownies, butter soaked flapjacks, and more come in such garden-useful containers, especially now, in the first fling of winter. The pic shows the sort of thing. Best are ones where the top half clips … Continue reading
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Tagged Aconitum, Eryngium, germination, irises, primulas, sorbus, Veratrum, vernalisation
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