Plant this
Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has popularised burnet, AKA sanguisorba, for its long-lasting drifts of tiny bottlebrush blooms held on wiry stems above feathery foliage. Try deep maroon ‘Red Thunder’, or cerise-flowered ‘Pink Tanna’.
Buy this
It’s not too early to be thinking about spring: a few pounds spent on bulbs now (I love the early, large purple-flowered crocus ‘Ruby Giant’) will liven up your lawn no end come February. Make it look natural by chucking a handful of bulbs down and plant where they fall, around 10cm deep, from now until the end of the month.
Visit this
The recently refurbished RHS Lindley Library in London has everything from modern gardening books to the archives of well-known gardeners. Its new exhibition on medicinal plants showcases some of the library’s early printed botanical encyclopaedias. Open Mon-Fri, details at rhs.org.uk.
