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Plant of the Day

Friday 14 February 2025

In late winter the clump-forming evergreen Helleborus foetidus (stinking hellebore, bearfoot, ox heel, setterwort, stinkwort) starts to flower. This is a woodland native in the U.K. and will cope with a shaded location. It is a shortlived perennial but tends to self seed so young plants appear nearby.

Plant of the Day

Sunday 23 June 2024

Covering the wall in stars, Campanula poscharskyana (trailing bellflower) has seeded into the mortar between the bricks. The low mound of foliage has spreading stems of flowers.

Forget-Me-Nots

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Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis sylvatica).

These charming little flowers, with their delicate sky-petals and cheerful yellow centres, bring a touch of nostalgia to any garden. A self-seeding biennial, they thrive in borders, under trees, and along pathways, weaving their way into nooks and crannies to create a natural, effortless beauty year after year.

Low-growing and gently spreading, Forget-Me-Nots make the perfect ground cover, softening edges and filling gaps with their airy, informal charm. They pair beautifully with spring bulbs—tulips, daffodils, and alliums—creating a stunning display of colour and texture. Once established, they take care of themselves, returning with even more vigour each season, ensuring you’re never without their delicate blooms.

There’s a reason gardeners treasure them. Not only are they easy to grow, but they also attract early pollinators, supporting bees at a crucial time of year. And let’s be honest—who can resist their old-fashioned charm?

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Verbena Bonariensis

Every Chelsea flower show garden has them!

They self-seed prolifically, ensuring their presence in the garden year after year.

These are currently in the greenhouse until the risk of frost is over.

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The Big Bed, aka the raised bed built into the lawn.  This used to be a few feet longer but I took off the end that became permanently shaded by the new taller house going up next door.  

I did another weeding pass, this time deciding to take out the blooming brassica and a bunch of carrots at the northernmost end.  I am leaving two really big, second-year carrots to go to seed.  I pulled a lot of seedshot from the shadier end and a bunch of raspberry runners.  

This bed has such a weird mix of veggies and herbs going on, I allow a lot of stuff here to self-seed and naturalize.  After having bajillion borage in here last year, I’m not seeding it and waiting to see how much I get.  There are good signs of having more red orrach this year.  The chard is doing great.  I’m going to try leaving one of each color variation to run to seed and eat/use the rest.

The garlic is in good shape.  It’s a hardneck.  That will go to the summer solstice at least.  I have thinned the Somnifera poppies twice, and they are the plants which have clearly responded to the couple of waterings the most.  I’ve also thinned the California poppies as those have a tendency to over-proliferate.  Now that I have the edge beds in much better shape, I’d like to work to get the CA poppies out of the veggie bed and into the edges of the yard more.