Garden Talk

Sanguisorba officinalis Arnhem is tall and see-through so that you can peer out from behind  a clump as if looking  through a gauzy curtain.  It likes difficult clay soils and  spreads surely but not  in a thuggish manner.    It doesn't need staking and adds colour through late summer into autumn with blood red flower-heads. In this border it is planted with Knautia macedonica, Scabiosa ochroleuca and Anemanthele lessoniana.    Also good with the larger grasses.