A diary of back garden botany, urban ecology, rural rambles and field trips to the middle of nowhere...
Friday, 19 April 2019
Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) is one of my fave wayside weeds/wildflowers. The daisy-like flowers adorn many a hedgerow and woodland edge in the countryside at this time of year.
The patch above is in the back garden however. Several years ago I planted a tiny sprig of it from the South London Botanical Institute and it's gone mad!
Re. my previous entry about naturalistic gardening. This is a good example of using chance as a design tool. I thought Stichwort would probably do well in this spot which corresponds to the part sun/part shade of its natural habitat. But I couldn't predict it would do this well!