ANOTHER LIFE: THE PLANT THAT burst into bloom in our gateway a few years ago was new to my eye, certainly pretty, and grown, perhaps, from a seed thrown off a passing lorry. Picking it to paint it was, perhaps, a lucky impulse. Left to produce its own seeds, it could have sprayed them explosively, raining little black ball-bearings for several metres all around.
The banks of the stream that ducks through a hollow at that corner of our acre could now be choked with thickets of Impatiens glandulifera, or Indian (Himalayan) balsam, joining the existing jungle of Fuchsia magellanica, the alien from Argentina…..The Irish Times..16/04/12…read full article..
