{"id":149898,"date":"2025-03-21T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inject-some-zing-into-your-weary-garden-with-electrifying-euphorbias\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:28:00","slug":"inject-some-zing-into-your-weary-garden-with-electrifying-euphorbias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/inject-some-zing-into-your-weary-garden-with-electrifying-euphorbias\/","title":{"rendered":"Inject some zing into your weary garden with electrifying euphorbias"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn the doldrums of winter-spring these stunning flowering plants are a happy beacon of hope and promiseI\u2019m fortunate enough to work from a posh outhouse in the back garden. Known as The Hut, it\u00a0could grandly be called A\u00a0Studio, but is, in reality, a\u00a0large shed with better-than-average insulation, some bookshelves and a fan heater. I get to have a potter in the garden as part of the \u201ccommute\u201d, but recent weather has meant my current options to get to work are: gingerly cross the patchy lawn (which I intend to reseed next week, before we go away, so it can germinate in peace) or\u00a0take the less-direct gravel path. The\u00a0latter would be the sensible option, except that my euphorbia is absolutely rocketing away, and offers a\u00a0sort of thigh-high wash of its own.You\u2019d probably recognise euphorbias even if you didn\u2019t know what they were; in the final, bright days of winter they are a happy, often-neon beacon of\u00a0hope and promise. My Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii are currently exploding out of an old agricultural water trough that I tried, and failed, to turn into a small pond (I never could stop the leaks), but they previously lived in the gravel garden, until they grew too big for their boots. If I was trying to contain them, I failed: they now rise resplendently to chest height, frequently threatening to engulf the toddler whole (crucially, never when the stems are cut \u2013 the sap can be\u00a0quite nasty on bare skin and in eyes). Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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