Amateur Gardening

For autumn colour, plant Hesperantha

WITH their dew-covered grasses and cobwebs, fading flowers and mellow light, the chilly days of autumn are on the horizon. But that doesn’t mean your garden can’t still provide colour and interest for months to come. The key is to find space for plants that come into their own at this time of year, and one that definitely fits the bill is hesperantha.

These plants used to be known as the tricky to pronounce – and even trickier to spell – schizostylis. Then, in the 1990s, scientists discovered that

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