Running my eye across the borders now, I’m reminded of what irks me most about our approach to gardening – our attitude to the plants we call ‘weeds’…
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I remember one of my gardening lecturers telling the class that you’d have to be bonkers ever to buy a pot of Verbena bonariensis, given that it seeds so freely about. He was right – on one level at least…
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Thank heaven for creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata). Not really for any intrinsic value the plant possesses – it’s not particularly ornamental, though I do quite like the variety with the deep maroon foliage…
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