I know all the gloom and doom merchants go on about how you should never plant Russian Vine, Fallopia baldshuanica, in a small garden as its rampant and if you turn your back it swallows half of England! But I don't care! I love love love it. It has attitude and likes a fight - cut it back as hard as you like and it hits back. So you have to be the master and in doing so you get wonderful green foliage held on red stems that will cover anything in your yard you want it too. I teat it as cheap topiary and cut it into shapes. The best of all is you get to autumn and wow the Russian Vine is covered in loads of frothy creamy white flowers - not so doom and gloom now!
So who's going to join me in the Russian Vine Appreciation Society?
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