#variegated euphorbia

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 30 April 2024

In this front garden the variegated foliage and flowers of Euphorbia characias 'Silver Swan' (variegated spurge) were creating a display. This shrubby, evergreen perennial plant, has maroon-flushed dark stems that are clothed in grey-green leaves.

Jill Raggett

[angelparts]

April 14, 2023.

euphorbia mammillaris ‘variegata’

[greenycacteable]

This pretty pretty variegated euphorbia is pushing out what looks like pink spikes ?? And I thought she couldn't get prettier??

[dsthingsandstuff]

Variegated Euphorbia Milii (crown of thorns)

[tintinntabuli]

Set a Weed to catch a Weed.

Readers in America will have to forgive me some of this. I understand you have many ‘invasives’ and many people only wish to grow native plants. And I think many of you have local rules which also inform what you are allowed to plant. Though it does seems some Ranters like to indulge a weed.

In the UK we have been cautioned not to call slugs and snails ‘pests’ , no doubt because it will offend them. And now we been forbidden to call a weed a weed. ‘Hero Plants’ they are now. We do have an invasive plant list in the UK, but there’s only about a dozen plants in it, but we do have a lot of what people term ‘thugs’, which they moan about volubly. Confused?

Well, my theme here is not really the particular plants I use as examples, so if any give you the horrors or would lead to you getting arrested if you adopted them, please spend a few minutes thinking of usable alternatives.

I think many people fear weeds because the weeds may gobble up the more delicate and refined plants. But many of us have quite large areas with no refined plants and none on the horizon, given the price plants are managing to sell at now. Some of us have quite large areas covered with a ‘hero plant’ we have been unable to get rid of. However, wandering round Veddw, as I do, I have been thinking how many rampant plants work well with other rampant plants.

I have a lot of ground elder, (Aegopodium Podagraria) for example. Which I gather you can eat. Though I know that if it were really nice to eat, the supermarkets would sell it. But I have it mixed very pleasurably with some other plants.

Here it is with Persicaria campanulata, which in the summer will ordinarily take over from the ground elder. Either of them can give UK gardeners the horrors, but they are happy together and you may even find yourself able to enjoy their springtime mingle. Quite attractive, I find it.

Last year I experimented with letting my hostas fight it out with the ground elder, and I confess the ground elder was a little too victorious. I don’t contemplate getting rid of it, as I know some people try to – I’m absolutely against futile and demanding activity. But it will get cut back regularly this year to give the hostas the upper hand. Management is my theme.

Were you to look very carefully at that photo you might spot another reputed monster: vinca minor (periwinkle) in that picture. A bit of an enemy in America, I understand. And probably here too. We inherited it with a ruined cottage, and from there it has spread:

Quite a bit of periwinkle.

It’s doing no harm there, and I do notice that other plants do come through it:

Blue wood anemone with periwinkle

The anemone has been in for some years and is slowly begining to spread. This euphorbia (what is it??) is happy submerged in periwinkle.

At the edge of the periwinkle there is ivy, along with Erythronium White Beauty (see also) looking very happy. Will it seed into and spread maybe in the periwinkle?

Elsewhere a different variety of periwinkle is almost failing to hold its own:

Periwinkle competing with persicaria and (see on the top right) rodgersia. Looking good.

The rodgersia wins, of course:

Where’s the periwinkle gone?

I think ivy is well hated though we manage to cohabit happily, including having an ivy fence.

Maybe it’s more correctly a hedge? I think some call it a ‘fedge’.

It will also mingle pleasantly:

Lamium and ivy

That wicked ground elder has a variegated version which also makes pleasing combinations, in this case with a plant I know a friend of mine has been painstakingly removing from his garden:

Lysimachia ciliata ‘Firecracker’ and Variegated Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria ‘Variegatum’)

Last year I enjoyed this combination, purely resulting from my inability to weed this area satisfactorily. And now I won’t try.

Geranium macrorrhizum and creeping buttercup. (Bad plant = Ranunculus repens)

And here’s a fun battle –

Euphorbia Fireglow invading some ground elder

Are you begining to see some possibilities? If you love the leaves when they are fresh and new it is possible to strim them after they’ve been growing a couple of months to make them start again. This will also reduce their vigour, which you might possibly think is a good thing too.

I am always frustrated by knowing that the people who really hate gardening but who have a garden will never read garden posts and books. So they won’t benefit from contemplating such possibilities. But maybe you know someone like that and could suggest some vigorous and not illegal combination to them? Here is one of my biggest favourites:

Alchemilla mollis with geraniums and ferns

There must be some possibilities for you? And just think how sound it will make you. Wild Gardens are IN. Aa a lover of ‘hero’ plants – you’ll be a star.

Set a Weed to catch a Weed. originally appeared on GardenRant on May 11, 2023.

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[lindensplantdiary]

Potted up a bunch of corn cob cactuses today!☺️

*corn cob cactuses are actually euphorbia which are succulents, so please don’t forget to water them in the summer 😉

[like-an-evergreen]

A beautiful Euphorbia, 65cm tall. Also called a ‘ghost cactus’, although I think there are other forms and species of cactus that are also called this

Purchased from Moose Plant Shop for a very reasonable price.

It’s very spiky! I love it.

[wyldeplantlife]

Euphorbia ammak variegata

David Feix

[hottiehorti]

Leaves really did start sprouting! But over time, the leaves kept getting bigger (see 2nd pic) so I was quite confused, and went to Google the ID (it was in Chinese and I'd assumed it's Monadenium ritchiei cos it looked like it and I'd forgotten how the mother plant had looked like from when I ordered it. Terrible, I know 😅). And lo and behold. It's actually an Euphorbia poissonii 😲 I don't think I've been so excited for a wrongly ID-ed plant lol

I ordered a variegated monadenium ritchiei online and it came highly corked with all the leaves gone. I wasn't sure if I could get it into an active growing stage (with leaves) quickly enough for it to not rot under my care (my biggest fear is overwatering), but I think something is happening at the growth tip! Look at that pink tip 👀 It was all green with brown tips at first. Yay!

And yes, I finally had some time to snap a few pictures of my plants💃🏻

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 30 November 2022

Great for a winter container or border is this evergreen spurge probably Euphorbia characias ‘Tasmanian Tiger’. This hardy sub-shrub needs a sunny location. Remember when working with the plant that all parts are highly toxic by ingestion and that the sap may irritate skin and eyes so wear gloves and other protective equipment as needed.

Jill Raggett

[woodlandali3n]

A little shelfie💚

[kleptoplante]

Some cool plants at the garden center

[thewestcoastbish]

Hi lovely people! Not my traditional #onwednesdaysweplantpink but I really love cactus. And maybe my hair will make up for it 😂. I haven’t overwhelmed everyone with cactus because I feel like everyone is so into the philodendrons. But to be honest, cactus are my first true loves. This beautiful baby that I have in my hands is a Dragon Bone Cactus. When it gets more sunlight, the tips turn pink. It’s absolutely amazing. Scroll through the pictures to see some close ups. Anywho enjoy this random shot of me and my cactus babies outside. Also I named the big one Paarthunax from Skyrim. Don’t hate but at least I’m not shouting DOVAHKIIIINNNNNN. I loved Skyrim 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ still haven’t figured out what to name my baby dragon bone cactus. 

[dsthingsandstuff]

Variegated crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii)

[maijamexico-blog]

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[succygirl]

Saw a really big variegated Euphorbia ammak today. :)