A prickle: giant reed grass

Bramble & Briar #144. Sometimes, the plant lust hits hard.

Nov 2 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

8

4

October 2025

A natural indifference, garden edition

Bramble & Briar #143. The clocks have gone back. The garden's not bothered.

Oct 26 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

8

2

A prickle: stag’s horn sumach

Bramble & Briar #142. It's a distinctly badly behaved plant. And yes, I still want it.

Oct 16 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

10

2

Garden taming starts now

Bramble & Briar #141. When we get to pretend we're in charge

Oct 12 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

8

5

A prickle: teasels

Bramble & Briar #140. A dark side to your favourite garden back-scratcher

Oct 4 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

13

3

September 2025

Meetings with plants: mauve-flowered starwort

Bramble & Briar #139. Just a particularly good daisy

Sep 28 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

16

3

Sunk-cost fallacy

Bramble & Briar #138. Sometimes, you've just got to cut your losses. Especially when you realise you're being played by a plant

Sep 21 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

7

Meetings with plants: dwarf lady’s mantle

Bramble & Briar #137. Good things come in small packages. Weedy things, too...

Sep 17 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

5

1

Gardeners know how to play. Don’t we?

Bramble & Briar #136. Sometimes, you need a dog to remind you of the important things in life

Sep 15 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

7

4

Meetings with plants: Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’

Bramble & Briar #135. Not nearly as fierce as it sounds

Sep 10 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

9

1

Meetings with plants: salad burnet

Bramble & Briar #134. Too good just to eat (though that, too)

Sep 3 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

9

9

August 2025

All change

Bramble & Briar #133. Something different's in the air. Quite what, who knows?

Aug 31 • 

Andrew Timothy O'Brien

9

2