Property News · June 12, 2022

‘Gloriously gnarly’: what professional botanists plant at home


Wild as some may look, botanic gardens are orderly places, where everything is planted for a reason. But home gardens are different, altogether more personalGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastWalking through London’s Kew Gardens on a winter’s day, the botanist Prof Tim Entwisle was struck by the sight of a Persian ironwood tree. The tree was leafless but not lifeless. While others in the gardens were bare-branched and stark, the ironwood’s vibrant red blossoms stood out against the snow.The image stayed with Entwisle. It prompted him to plant a Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) at his home in Melbourne, where it thrives, out of place, in the heart of an orderly garden. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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