Shrubs for Allotment

**Capsid** · 26-05-2010, 04:20 PM

I'm very food centric and grow plants that you can eat as well as look pretty. How about growing herbs? Rosemary and chives are flowering now; sage will grow to a reasonable size and mine is about to flower. Thyme and marjoram also flower in mid summer and the insects love them.

Then there are blueberries which have delicate flowers and pretty berries.

**klf_1956** · 27-05-2010, 03:02 PM

I like your thinking, thanks for taking the time

**Jeanied** · 27-05-2010, 03:24 PM

Not so much shrubs as mini trees - I have a little crab apple and a quince on my lottie - alongside the bushes - rasps, goosegogs, red and black currants.
Other perennial things that look great on our allotment site are the clumps of iris, some gorgeous globe artichokes and some great patches of comfrey. I have lavender edgings.
If I were to put cutting flowers as well - how about paeony, roses and gladioli.
I love my patch of pinks as well.

**klf_1956** · 01-06-2010, 10:26 AM

Many Thanks, your time is much appreciated

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