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Garden uphorbia Euphoria Sue Whigham shares her love for this zingy and diverse garden favourite The other day we made a welcome pit stop at Dulwich Park after crawling slowly up the South Circular and through the dreaded Catford traffic on the way to Brixton. Luckily we chose Dulwich, which, if you don’t know it, is really a fabulous park with its boating lake, mature trees and gardens and perfect for our ‘country’ dog to have a sniff around. It was like home for him but with more dogs to say hello to so he was more than happy. So was I, as up by the café was a large intense planting of Euphorbia amygdalloides var. robbiae growing in full sun. I know that it’s a plant recommended for dry, shady areas but this proved that it flourishes absolutely anywhere – and often where you haven’t intended it to be. Well, in our garden at least. It’s all the same to this particular euphorbia whether it finds itself under a yew hedge or tucked in under a mature tree. Do you think it would flourish under the dreaded Leylandii? I suspect it would. Anyway, it has dark, showy evergreen rosettes of leaves and lime green inflorescences early in the year. The other fabulous plant alongside the euphorbia which in my garden was a battered specimen until a week or so but is now cut back to the ground, was a spectacular Melianthus major. Proof of London’s micro climate if ever there was one. This is an exotic South African plant which has deeply serrated glaucous grey-green leaves and smells of peanuts. This one was about to burst into flower and I was quite expecting a humming bird to appear to drink its nectar à la Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. Do grow it if you have somewhere sunny and sheltered for it to flourish. Back to euphorbia. First a few facts. The vernacular name of euphorbia is spurge. Euphorbia are to be found Europe has 105 species of which 25 are native to the UK on every continent, bar Antarctica, and come in thousands of different forms. The RHS Plant Finder lists over 150 species, varieties and cultivars but really this is the tip of the iceberg in that at least 2,000 species exist throughout the world. A lot are native to the European Mediterranean region – Turkey alone is home to 95 species and Europe has 105 species of which 25 are native to the UK. Many euphorbia are succulents and are often confused with cacti. In tropical East Africa they reach tree like proportions. The way to tell whether they are cacti or euphorbia is that if the spines are in pairs then it is euphorbia. Oh, and a sticky white sap also means it is euphorbia (the sap is somewhat toxic and to be avoided). That of a cactus is a clear liquid. E. lathyris or molewort was always thought to be grown to put off moles using your garden as a tunnelling venue but in fact its sap was used to burn moles or warts off the skin. The burrowing type of mole aren’t bothered by it at all. Euphorbia flowers are quite unique and have neither petals or sepals and instead have a colourful structure close to the flowers which is known as a leaf or a bract. At the top of the flower head you’ll see a pair of leaves with a cup like structure inside it which is known as a cyanthium. The glands round its rim secrete nectar and are a beacon for pollinators. Ants are particularly possessive; protecting ‘their’ nectar from all comers! The strongly honey scented amber flowers of the honey bush, Euphorbia mellifera, are particularly glorious and the seed capsules are notoriously ‘noisy’ as they explode on a sunny day. I’ve always been told that they need a sunny sheltered position to be their best and in countries like Madeira and the Canary 129 wealdentimes.co.uk
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