{"id":16948,"date":"2016-06-18T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-fell-for-the-bombproof-buttercup-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T10:16:21","slug":"why-i-fell-for-the-bombproof-buttercup-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-fell-for-the-bombproof-buttercup-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I fell for the bombproof buttercup | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMeadow rue are lovely \u2013 tall or short, they produce fine sprays of tiny flowers and slugs don\u2019t like themThere is a piece of Kazakhstan that is seared into my memory. In 2014, I\u00a0turned a corner there to a bit of the world that is perfectly gardened. We were looking for old stands of protected wild apples and as the hills became mountains, the landscape turned into a giant perennial border. Fat peonies with seed heads splitting forth, wild roses, echinops bobbing, foxtail lilies waving tall seedheads and a sea of thalictrum running from the sun into the shade of the forest. After a long hot summer the smell of\u00a0fermenting apples gave everything a\u00a0nostalgic air. Oh, to see this in full flower.I\u2019d sort of forgotten about thalictrum, or meadow rue, as they are commonly known, until that moment. Thalictrum are lovely: tall or short but always decidedly airy. They produce a fine spray of tiny flowers that often resemble pompoms, because the petals are either absent or fall off leaving a numerous showy stamens. Despite being commonly called a rue, thalictrum are in the buttercup family and so are pretty much bombproof when it comes to pests; slugs don\u2019t touch them, making them useful in this year of the slug apocalypse. And they are good in shade. There are tall ones for the back of a border and much smaller ones for pockets of shade under trees and bushes. They are a useful, easy-going bunch. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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