Volunteers are free!
Jul 27, 2021
3 minutes
THE ideal garden guests are beautiful plants that gently seed themselves around and aren’t difficult to remove if need be. These include orange splashes of California poppy blazing through a gravel border, Stipa tenuissima and Chasmanthium latifolium grasses billowing among perennials and forget-me-nots glowing blue in dappled shade.
The late gardeners Margery Fish, Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto all championed the use of self-sowing plants (or ‘volunteers’, as the Americans call them). Fish banned hoes in
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