An easy support plant for your orchard could be bladder campion. What a yummy, easy to grow plant with wonderful flowers for insects too. Silene vulgaris also known as Carletti, or Sculpit or Baldder Campion is a wild edible found in meadows apparently well loved and cultivated in Italy as a cooked green often usedContinue reading “Bladder campion in the orchard”
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Growing hops in the orchard
It’s always exciting to find plants growing where you wouldn’t expect to find them – here are some hops that were growing wild along a stream near Newquay, Cornwall. The plant was so vigorous and full of life. It was May and they continue growing until the end of June to get to it’s maximumContinue reading “Growing hops in the orchard”