Property News · September 3, 2016

Summertime adventures in a supermarket car park


Among the usual cotoneaster, privet and box, Alys Fowler discovers a fearsome, foul-smelling Mediterranean arumThis summer, I’ve spent rather a lot of time in Morrisons’ car park. At times, I’ve made daily trips, just to look at the strange things unfurling there.The place is full of all the predictable car-park planting – cotoneaster (which I may start guerrilla cloud-pruning), privet and box – plus lots of litter and undesirable desire lines. There’s a hell of a lot of bark mulch, too, which must be from the Mediterranean, for otherwise I have no idea how the dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), a native to the Balkans, mainland Greece, Crete and the Aegean Islands, appeared. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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