I knew a lady who liked them and grew them in her garden and called them spurge. Her husband, who didn't like them, called them splurge!
I like them, except the weed petty spurge which comes up all over my garden in spring and I spend hours pulling it out. In the autumn I bought my first euphorbia to plant at the yellow/green transition in my rainbow border. It's thriving under the beech tree and has three flowering stems. I can't remember the variety, it's about 18" tall, with yellow/green flowers that have a little fleck of red in them. Now I know it likes where I've put it, I shall get some more.
Not keen. There were a lot of weedy ones here when we moved in and I got a bad rash getting rid of them, so never again, not even touching one with gloves.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I’ve really enjoyed reading this thread - and I’ve got the names of quite a few different varieties I’d like to get my hands on. Here’s a picture of my martinii alongside my Tetrapanax and also the latest euphorbia in my collection, kalipso ❤️
I think you have to get to know them to love them. I had no interest in them at all until I moved to my current location, where half a dozen different ones grow in the wild. They slowly began to captivate me. I now have three types...
Mellifera for its clean, green leaves and graceful habit - a lovely foliage plant:
Blackbird for it’s purple stems and crazy heads:
Polychroma Bonfire is a good, neat edging plant, changes from green to purple to russet:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I absolutely love them, Euphorbia characias wulfenii is one of my all time favourite plants. At the moment I have E. mellifera which I planted as a 9cm pot a couple of years ago. It's flowered for the first time this year, and really does smell of honey.
E. oblangata (the limey haze behind), which is a short lived perennial which self seeds. I love having a supply of seedlings to transplant where I want them, they're a great foil for other plants. It flowers from May right through until autumn.
I also have an E. cyparissias in a pot - I've never been brave enough to plant it in the garden because it runs at the root! It would probably look good in a big container with tulips.
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I like them, except the weed petty spurge which comes up all over my garden in spring and I spend hours pulling it out. In the autumn I bought my first euphorbia to plant at the yellow/green transition in my rainbow border. It's thriving under the beech tree and has three flowering stems. I can't remember the variety, it's about 18" tall, with yellow/green flowers that have a little fleck of red in them. Now I know it likes where I've put it, I shall get some more.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This was taken early March .....
Mellifera for its clean, green leaves and graceful habit - a lovely foliage plant:
Blackbird for it’s purple stems and crazy heads:
Polychroma Bonfire is a good, neat edging plant, changes from green to purple to russet:
E. oblangata (the limey haze behind), which is a short lived perennial which self seeds. I love having a supply of seedlings to transplant where I want them, they're a great foil for other plants. It flowers from May right through until autumn.
I also have an E. cyparissias in a pot - I've never been brave enough to plant it in the garden because it runs at the root! It would probably look good in a big container with tulips.
I have only this one small plant.
Anyone know which it is?