Amateur Gardening – 24 August 2019

46 AMATEUR GARDENING24 AUGUST 2019

ALTHOUGHmostbuddlejashave

flowersona purpletheme,thereare

manywithorangeflowers –0 a colour

thatis completely

oppositetopurple

onthe‘colour

wheel’.Hereare

justthree:

Orangeball

tree(B.globosa):

a semi-evergreen

thatcanreach16ft

(5m).In early

summerit hasrounded

flowerheads1¾in(2cm)acrossof

scentedorange-yellowflowers.

B.xweyeriana‘GoldenGlow’:a

deciduousshrub7ft(2m)tall,withloose

spikesof yellow-orangeflowers,tinted

palelilac,fromsummertoautumn.

Madagascarbutterflybush(B.

madagascariensis):a tenderevergreen

needingconservatoryprotectionin

winter.It hasnarrowdark-greenleaves,

white-feltedbeneath,andspikesof

fragrantorange-yellow flowers from

autumn to spring.

Orangesgalore

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

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HistoricalGardeningEvent

OfTheWeek: 21 August 2013

ONthisday,Kelv

Archer(resident

gardenerat

RodeHallin

Cheshire),

exhibitedthe

world’sbiggest

gooseberry– fo

yearsafterlosing

crown.Thereco y g

at 2.27oz.(64.49g)– thesizeof a

largeegg(seeabove),andwasthe

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usedtomeasurethesefruits.The

berryoutweighed,bymorethan2g,

thepreviousrecord-breakingfruit,

grownbyBryanNellistfromWhitby,

NorthYorkshire,in 2009.

Bryanhadpreviouslybeaten

Kelvinaftera rowoverweighing

methods,whichvarybetween

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Aswewenttopress,weheard

thattheworldrecordwasbrokenby

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with a gooseberry of 64.56g.

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Buddleja globosa

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