Amateur Gardening – 10 July 2019

46 AMATEUR GARDENING 6 JULY 2019

ONE plant that is

sometimes chosen

by chocoholics

for its name alone

is a cultivar of

columbine –

Aquilegia ‘Fruit And

Nut Chocolate’. You

could be forgiven for thinking

it was sponsored by Cadbury. It is

a lovely and extremely tough little

perennial, producing pretty reddish-

brown flowers with contrasting yellow

stamens through spring and into early

summer. The blooms are held above

finely divided dark-green leaves that

also have a reddish tinge. It grows to just

12in (30cm) or so high and wide, and

enjoys a fertile, moist but well-drained

soil in sun or part shade.

Chocolatey

columbine

Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

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This word search comprises

words associated with

gardening and chocolate. They

are listed below; in the grid they

may be read across,

backwards, up, down or

diagonally. Letters may be

shared between words.

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BEANS

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Historical Gardening Event

Of The Week:3 July 1806

ON this day, the

first cultivated,

large-fruited,

edible strawberry

• ‘Keen’s Seedling’


• was exhibited by
  market gardener
  and amateur plant
  breeder Michael
  Keen, of Isleworth,
  Middlesex. The
  wild strawberry
  was known to the
  ancient Greeks and Romans: two of
  the earliest records of the strawberry
  are found in the writings of Roman
  poets Ovid and Virgil. During the late
  1700s and 1800s, English breeding
  led to the development of many new
  strawberry varieties. Andrew Knight
  (a founder of the RHS) is credited for
  developing the basic breeding
  techniques we use even today. But it
  is Keen who was the first to raise and
  market a large-fruited strawberry.
  ‘Keen’s Seedling’ is in the
  heritage of practically all commercial
  strawberries today. Incidentally,
  strawberries dipped in chocolate....
  nothing better!
  To celebrate Wimbledon fortnight
  (1-14 July), next week’s Miscellany
  will be looking at stories involving
  the strawberry.

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for its name alone

is a cultivar of

columbine –

Aquilegia

Chocolatey

columbine

Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke