{"id":26112,"date":"2023-08-29T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72bc0f92-9df5-4100-b0de-8cedca6559cd"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:36:23","slug":"sanguisorba-how-to-grow-and-cultivate-sanguisorba","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/sanguisorba-how-to-grow-and-cultivate-sanguisorba\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanguisorba: how to grow and cultivate sanguisorba"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tight, bright burrs on wiry stems, long-flowering sanguisorbas offer a haze of gauzy colour. Words Marina Christopher, photographs Torie Chugg and Jason Ingram <\/p>

By Daisy Bowie-Sell\n <\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 29 August 2023 at 10:51 AM<\/p>

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Once, while wandering over the chalk downs of Box Hill in Surrey, I noticed the delicate scent of cucumber. On inspection of the ground beneath my feet I discovered I was standing on a diminutive pinnate-leaved plant that had small, globular, greenish-red heads with long straggly stamens: the salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor<\/em>).<\/p>

This was my first encounter with one of the two British native burnets. The other, the great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis<\/em>), prefers moisture-retentive soils in meadows or at the edge of woodland. It is much taller at 1.2m with small, burgundy bobbles atop wiry stems.<\/p>\n

Sanguisorba CDC262 – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba dodecandra – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba tenuifolia ‘Purpurea’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba tenuifolia ‘Stand Up Comedian’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba Candensis ‘Twisty’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Sussex Prairies Apache’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Misbourne Pink’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Little Angel’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Ivory Towers’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Candy Floss’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Burr Blanc’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
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Sanguisorba ‘Autumn Red’ – \u00a9 Torie Chugg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>