Euphorbias in a country garden

Nothing like a deadline to get me shoving out pictures of the garden in spring. I have a zoom call in one hour and four minutes. Which is time enough to fix the background shots (hide all the mess in my office) clean cat hair off the statement jumper, load up on coffee…sort of brush hair (hah!) and show off with spring pictures.

It’s just gorgeous here on the farm this year. A good blast of cold winter weather, wet March. And now sunshine and zinging electric colours with all the euphorbias out.

If you are looking for a fluffy, acid green explosion then I recommend the self-seeding eupborbia x wulfenii to give you a lot of impact.

It is Not Polite.

It explodes all over the garden when the seed pods are ready to launch. And if you want to get great coverage in a messy garden like mine. Then it’s perfect. You do have to rogue out the ones that are escaping too far away from the actual garden.

And there is the issue of cutting the spent flowering bracts. But that is for next month.

But right now the bees are going mad, and so am I.

It’s just so lovely to get huge displays of this particular colour in among the more drab evergreens.

I do have just one euphorbia polychrome left.

It’s gorgeous too.

But you can see the thuggish euphorbia wulfenii right behind it and muscling in. No wonder I lost so many of these delicate ones over the years.

And the euphorbia Robbiae is silently colonising where I had hoped.

It is held in check here by rocks on either side. And a grass path in front that I can mow. So far, so controlled…

And I do think all the euphorbias look great when they are in a planting scheme that is just as butch and busy.

It is fun to see the flowering bracts looking like they are muscling their way among the other plants.

Especially if you have annual grassy weeds threatening to invade.

They are the perfect visual diversion.