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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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All yellows at peril
And, such are the surprises of gardening, much else too. Hemerocallis ‘Hyperion’, wrecked. The lovely mahogany-backed H. ‘Corky’, wrecked. The courgette flowers I’d promised myself for supper, battered, fried, impossible: wrecked. The brazen flowers of Ligularia dentata, not that I … Continue reading
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Tagged cima di rapa, hemerecallis Hyperion, hemerocallis, honeysuckle, ligularia, pollen beetles, yellow sheets
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