Rarely would I say this, but a sad day dawned on Hyde Hall last week. Sherrie, the youngest horticulturist of the team, set off with fledged apprentice Ed for the scenic lands and midgie clouds of Scotland. Very ridiculous, very chatty, and very blonde - all in a very good way - she will most certainly be missed as a friend and as a mess-room character. As a gardener, moreover, she leaves behind the well-tended and highly popular Cottage Garden and Modern Country Garden. I thought I'd choose a plant from there to look at, and at this time of year the dill provides an elegant form of height and structural body to the Cottage Garden.
Anethum graveolens, "Dill".
(Hardy Annual.)
Planting: Sow seed in succession (every 3-5 weeks), from April to midsummer.
Flowering: Summer.
Aspect: Non-north facing, sheltered.
Hardiness: Hardy.
Notes: Dill is so beloved in Eastern European cooking that their equivalent of the English proverb "to have a finger in every pie" is "biti mirodjija u svakoj corbi" - "
to be a dill in every soup."
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