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Parent Plant Collecting
It’s not often that I leave the smog and head back to the fresh and balmy air of Suffolk. I love it when I’m there, but trying to actually set aside time to go home sometimes proves difficult. Visits are often fleeting and I never manage to quite catch up with everyone I wanted to see, or re-live the places of my childhood. An odd day trip to the beautiful beaches of the RSPB’s Minsmere or walking my parents Dachshunds around Framlingham Castle is just about shoved in amongst scurrying to and fro. However, in these past months I’ve had to head home several times for family reasons, and it’s been a great opportunity for me to rediscover the garden.
I’ve gardened from a very early age and I can still remember my first plant – an African marigold. I was much peturbed to discover that the following year it was nowhere to be seen whilst my sister’s Hypericum perforatum (St John’s Wort) was happily thriving in its border. Here was my first introduction to annual and perennials and I can’t have been much older than six or seven. My mum was the main force behind my gardening and whilst she contended with being a very active vicar’s wife, she also managed to maintain the 3/4 acre garden to National Trust level. We moved of course, as vicars families do, leaving behind that wonderful garden and taking on a new one. And, as a favour to my mum in my past visits, I set about tweaking and pruning and clipping and wedding to my heart’s delight.
Stunning pasque flowers grow in colourful mounds
The fantastic thing with gardening in someone else patch is that you discover all these wonderful new plants. Of course, my daily living is spent in other’s gardens but as these have largely been developed by myself there are no surprises to be found. However, in my parents garden, a garden of horticultural enthusiasts, there is all sort’s to explore. The additional bonus of plants is that, without much effort, if you like it you can have it. A stem, leaf or root cutting can easily be stashed away, whist if the plant’s large enough you can simply seperate and hey-presto, you’ve got new plants for your garden.
Speckled viola’s are a great take on the original
In the front garden a beautiful pin pricked border of red greeted me and I found some stunning little geums which, of course, I pocketed. My mum actually bought me my marmalade geums that I got at the RHS Green Gardening Show a few years back and these new red plants will add beautiful cohesian to the garden when they flower in spring. Meanwhile, great mounds of pasque flowers erupted in purple and pink from the rockery, a stunning sight especially with their centre’s looking like a little bee was visiting each indivdiual. And, growing out of the cracks of the pavement tiny speckled viola’s offered something new to this delightful little species.
Beautiful red geums will compliment marmalade varieties well.
All in all I came back with a great stash of new plants to fill my garden with. And as they grow, mature and flower I’ll always be reminded of just where they’re from and my wonderful green fingered parents.
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