CRAB APPLE, ASTER, SORREL
Apple branches, a tall stately hollyhock and a sprinkling of mauve and pink flowers over a muddy palette of turning leaves and volcanic sorrel.
OCTOBER
VaSE
Footed vase
Kenzan
Dome of chicken wire
INGREDIENTS
Malus ‘Prairie Fire’ (crab apple)
Viburnum opulus (guelder rose)
Solanum ‘Sungold’ (tomato)
Alcea ‘Halo Apricot’ (hollyhock)
Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica (clary sage)
Linaria purpurea (purple toadflax)
Oxalis vulcanicola ‘Sunset Velvet’ (volcanic sorrel)
Symphyotrichum laeve ‘Calliope’ (aster)
Anemone hupehensis (Japanese anemone)
Chrysanthemum ‘Innocence’ (chrysanthemum)
NOTES
Late October. It’s a glorious time of year in the garden, as the season gently winds down it is positively smouldering and flickering with fiery leaves and fruits. The hardy chrysanthemum in the outdoor beds are a useful resource as our tunnel-grown varieties begin to dwindle. Asters are still performing - we love their little lilac daisy faces, so great for pepping through as both filler and texture. The volcanic sorrel was given to me as a gift; it’s an enchanting plant, the leaves follow the sun and quiver closed every evening. I grow it in my garden at home in London, bringing it indoors before the first frost… any day now!
