Field Notes No. 10 — The Troublemakers: The Plants that Gave Me Grief

Hello Reader, One of the things I resent about gardening influencers is seeing only perfect gardens. Gardens at their peak. Everything blooming. Nothing flopping. Not a weed in sight. Real gardens all have an ugly phase. Some are less ugly than others, I'll grant you, but still. That's the part we don't see on Instagram. And it's the part we most need to see. Gertrude Jekyll understood this over a century ago. In the introduction to Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, Gertrude Jekyll she...