I am on the hunt for some rather special plants to fill a new space in my garden after I spent nearly a day digging out a large bamboo.
The bamboo had to come out because it had been taking a lot of moisture from the soil — plus I fancied a change. I’ve replaced it with one of my favourite trees, Clerodendrum trichotomum fargesii, which will hopefully reward me with deliciously scented summer flowers followed by its unusual winged fruit. By digging in plenty of leaf mould to the bare patch beneath the tree’s canopy I have created the conditions of a mini woodland to pop in the most majestic of spring woodlanders, trilliums (more commonly known as wake robins).
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