Friday Foto
This time of year sees the flowering of one of my favourite plants in our garden. This is a plant that thrives while so much around it is dying off. Normally we can’t see a great deal of it because a couple of Weigelia shrubs have climbed all over it and use it for support. But in the autumn the flower spikes appear over the top of everything else, and gradually turn to a lovely bright yellow. I’ve no idea what this plant is called, we were given it many years ago, and it has thrived well in a mixed (jungle) area of shrubs. It stands about twelve feet high, and covers a wide area within these shrubs. The leaves are very spiky, almost thistle-like.
