WATER FIGWORT, DAISY, BEDSTRAW, BELLFLOWER
A large pedestal bowl brimming with the abundance of the June garden.
JUNE
INGREDIENTS
Scrophularia auriculata (water figwort)
Leucanthemum vulgare (ox-eye daisy)
Campanula lactiflora ‘Loddon Anna’, ‘Pritchard’s Variety’ & ‘Alba’ (milky bellflower)
Sanguisorba tenuifolia ‘Alba’ (white-flowered burnet)
Galium mollugo (hedge bedstraw)
Gaura ‘Siskiyou Pink’ & ‘Rosyjane’ (Lindheimer's beeblossom)
Echinacea ‘Paradoxa’ & ‘Pallida’ (cone flower)
VASE
Ceramic bowl, approx 30cm diameter (Aesme Studio design)
Kenzan
Chicken wire
NOTES
The tall spire flower with the dark stem is a native weed that we enjoy in the cutting garden - it is water figwort (Scrophularia auriculata) and produces masses of tiny maroon flowers from July to September that provide nectar for butterflies, bees and wasps. Happy in the pond or bog garden it is also able to tolerate periods of drought. The name ‘Auriculata’ refers to the shape of the tiny flowers and translate as ‘shaped like an ear’.