The show gardens at Volmary in Germany sure do stimulate the senses, in every single way! Just to prove that, I have selected 3 plants that tickled each of my 5 senses; smell, touch, taste, hear and sight:
SMELL
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- Black Basil- giant and pungent, with that typical clove-like punch!
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- Lemon Verbena is my favourite fragrance, it’s rich and bloody sexy as hell!
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- Unbeknown to many, Bidens actually possess a tempting honey-esque fragrance!
TOUCH
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- The Obedient Plant (Physostegia) has small florets that can be moved to exactly where you want them to be!
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- Rue (Ruta graveolens) is here because you SHOULDN’T touch it! The amusingly shaped leaves can cause a rash!
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- Alchemilla mollis has soft, felted leaves- and i just love how the raindrops stick to it!
TASTE
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- I HATE tomatoes, but I LOVE these super sweet orange ones, they’re like garden sweeties!
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- Learning more and more about edible flowers every day- these Cosmos tasted of violets, YES really!
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- Spilanthes is a little devil of a flower- it actually numbs the inside of your mouth.. great for toothaches!
HEAR
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- Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ is my favourite grass- with it’s stained glass looks, and nice rustling sounds!
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- Sunflowers were huge in the trial garden, and creaked entertainingly in the wind!
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- The crunch of a cucumber cannot be beaten- and these slices were heart-shaped, created using a special mould!
SIGHT
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- Wowsers! Coleus ‘Combat’ is pure psychedelia overload! Makes a fabulous patio plant, and even gives out of character blue flowers too!
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- Mina lobata is a sight to behold- appearing like the Spanish Flag! Quick climber which even grows well in cool UK summers!
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- Flamboyant Dahlias were the flower de jour, and this one was especially divine- with red and white pompom heads!
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Girlontor
That Coleus ‘combat’ camouflage is pure AbFab! Edina would love it!