Brambles as bedding!
January 19, 2007
Visiting the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in a gale this week, I came across some novel bedding. Amongst a planting of polyanthus in the Walled Garden East at the end of the Canal, white-stemmed brambles, the Himalayan Rubus biflorus, had been used as a centrepiece in each bed. They’re substantial plants, set out from large pots I’m sure, but they look superb against the background of the yew hedges and unobtrusively supported on black steel frames. Great idea!