Surviving underneath
This is a love letter to herbaceous perennials. Never does my love for them show itself more than March each year. Herbaceous perennials, are, by definition: a plant whose growth dies down annually but whose roots or other underground parts survive There is nothing more exciting than venturing out into the garden on one of the first spring days and seeing life again from something that frankly looked deceased over the winter. This truly blew my mind when I first owned a garden. Small but distinctive spear-shaped leaves are popping up where my favourite plant, verbena bonariensis (yes, I have a tattoo of this, what of it), is returning. My dear achillea, which bloomed absurdly bright yellow against my Hastings-net-loft-esque black sheds last summer, is producing tufts of gorgeous silver foliage that promise more of those tall, beaming, umbelliferous flowerheads. Not to mention my MANY salvias in containers which I'd cut right down, which all have promising little shoots which will ...