Bramble & Briar
Andrew Timothy O'BrienFor all the hours I spend planning what to plant and how to look after it, my garden has it’s own ideas about how it wants to grow. I can go along with Mother Nature, or steer my own course, but that's often where things go awry...
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 208 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Autumn weeds welcome
Storms, shorter days, and an explosion of autumn weed seedlings after a dry summer. Why we should welcome this resilient green tide in the garden.
It’s been a busy weekend. Two storms, the Hunter’s Moon, and the clocks have gone back. It’s...
Ignoring advice
Flouting the gardening calendar with late-October semi-ripe cuttings. From grit-heavy pots to Salvia and Perovskia, here is the case for dilettanti e felici.
It’s little late for taking semi-ripe cuttings (floppy at the top, a little woody...
Meetings with plants: Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’
Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ at sunset
As Japanese maples go, this one’s a corker, and it’s name is only missing the letter ‘y’ in the middle to make it exquisitely apt, rather than merely both descriptive and, somehow, slightly piratical.
I...
Fancy weeds
Fancy weeds taking over South London? Discover how drought-tolerant Michaelmas daisies and escaped garden flora are turning the capital lilac this autumn.
Why is it that South London has bougier weeds than anywhere else?
Meetings with plants: the hart’s tongue fern
Hart’s tongue fern (centre) keeping company with salad burnet and a soft shield fern
Pteridomania, that Victorian craze for ferns that ultimately gave the Custard Cream its distinctive pattern1, might be pushing things a bit. But I am fond...
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Online garden coach, writer and host of the Gardens Weeds & Words podcast. Unashamed owner of a too-loud laugh
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