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Plant of the Day
Monday 26 July 2021
With an open sunny position and a well-drained soil Achillea filipendulina 'Gold Plate' (yarrow) will thrive and produce these large flat heads of small, deep golden-yellow flowers. Here it was part of the herbaceous border display at Waterperry Garden, Oxfordshire. The feathery green leaves and flowers have a distinctive smell that some people find unpleasant.
Jill Raggett
Where could be a better place to spend a May Bank Holiday? Perfect. It makes me think of the Party Tree at Bag End.
Even better - I cycled here! You can just see my bike leaning against a table under the tree.
Plant of the Day
Tuesday 3 August 2021
It always amazes me that in a few months a seeds can produce these strong, tall plants. Helianthus annuus 'Red Sun' (sunflower) has typical heart-shaped leaves and as summer progresses large, dark red flowers with dark brown centres are produced. The flowers make wonderful seed-heads that attract the birds.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Monday 2 August 2021
The short evergreen shrub Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote' (English lavender) is ideal for a low flowering hedge. The small deep violet-purple flowers are in dense, aromatic spikes that are popular with pollinators.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 17 July 2021
The biennial or short-lived perennial Digitalis purpurea (foxglove) is flowering in a range of gardens I’ve visited recently, and even featuring on a gate at Waterperry Gardens, Oxford. Foxgloves will freely self-sow producing a rosette of soft leaves from which emerges a tall, one-sided spires of pendant, tubular, rosy-purple flowers. In an Orkney garden I saw an example of a plant with a peloric flower, which is a radially symmetrical flower that occurs in species with bilateral flowers. This terminal flower mutation, sometimes called Digitalis purpurea monstrosa, has been described by botanists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 24 July 2021
In the herbaceous borders at Waterperry Garden, Oxfordshire, the upright clumps of Veronicastrum virginicum 'Lavendelturm' (Culver's root) were covered in spires of small, soft lilac flowers. The lower part of the stems have whorls of long, pointed leaves. These plants need constant moisture and wilt quickly in dry soil conditions.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Sunday 1 August 2021
Flowering in mid and late summer cultivars of Phlox paniculata provide colour in borders and fill the air with their fragrance. These herbaceous perennials need a fertile, moist soil in full sun or partial shade.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Tuesday 27 July 2021
In the orchard at Waterperry Garden, Oxford, is a family apple (Malus domestica) tree. It was created by the orchard manager, Chris Lanczak, in 2010. There are around fifty-five different varieties of apples grafted on a Malus domestica ‘Spartan’ mother tree. Due to the range of early, mid and late season varieties the tree will provide fruit of different tastes over a long season.
Jill Raggett
