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\"Phacelia<\/a>I adore Phacelia. It’s pretty, delicate flower attracts hoverflies as well as many types of bees into our garden.\u00a0 It’s easy to grow, hardy\u00a0and it self seeds. Phacelia is a green manure<\/a> that can be sown into vegetable gardens when they would otherwise be left empty.<\/p>\n

\"phacelia<\/a>It improves the soil if the plants are dug in or cut before they flower and left on the top of the soil\u00a0to break down.<\/p>\n

I’ve never managed to do this. The promise of a garden full of the\u00a0colourful spikey\u00a0flowers is\u00a0too great.<\/p>\n

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When the flowers\u00a0come to an end the seeds start to form, uncurling in a way that resembles barley.<\/p>\n

\"phacelia<\/a><\/p>\n

This year I got carried away and sowed Phacelia in our flower beds too. Along with the borage, (another self seeding, bee attracting plant)\u00a0it’s taken over\u00a0so this afternoon’s job is to head out with my scissors and cut stems to fill vases all around the house, filling our rooms with it’s scent before clearing the rest of the plants away to the compost heap.<\/p>\n

\"phacelia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Have you tried growing green manures? Do you have a favourite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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