Alan Titchmarsh admits that the plants that give him most pleasure aren’t always the ones he’s intended to grow.
Most gardening folk are well versed in the definition of a weed: a plant ‘growing where it is not wanted’ or ‘growing in the wrong place’. As such, the term becomes subjective and, when a seedling of Rosa glauca appeared in my bed of agapanthus it was, quite clearly, a weed. And yet I feel guilty at calling such a graceful briar ‘a weed’, in the…
