Phacelia: pherny and phlowery. Or it would be if I hadn’t just cut it down yesterday. Sown in September, now left to wilt and melt into the soil, it’s going to provide a lovely green manure for my drying beans, making them extra nutritious and successful. Phacelia is a nitrogen-fixing legume. Nodules on the roots …
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A potager, or kitchen garden, has a geometric design of easily maintainable beds with hard paving around them. I’ve had a lot of fun lately working with pattern for a potager for a very nice early Victorian villa. Thank goodness for computer-aided design, making and remaking design options. Selecting veg varieties with ornamental value is …
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Loved the angle and grace of the dichotomous branching of this tree in bare naked winter form today at Wisley and on further research I find it has so many virtues I’ll be looking for an opportunity to plant one asap. – swamped by bees in July and August with domed corymbs 15 cm (!) …
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