While showing visitors around Grapes Hill Community Garden the other day I noticed a new species of fungus for the garden, growing on one of the logs on the log sculpture in the lawn (a Black Mulberry). I recognised it … Continue reading →
Two of my favourite herbaceous plants of late summer and early autumn are both in the genus Persicaria: Persicaria affinis and Persicaria amplexicaule. In English these plants are bistorts or knotgrasses, members of the Dock Family, Polygonaceae. Persicaria affinis is … Continue reading →
By far the largest plants in Norwich’s Grapes Hill Community Garden are four large ash trees. The ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is a member of plant family Oleaceae, which also includes privet, lilac, jasmine and the olive tree. It is a … Continue reading →