Symphytum grandiflorum | Creeping Comfrey Frances Palmer ~ Edmund de Waal

~ Edmund de Waal

A beautiful plant for creating that informal

Autumn Joy is a popular upright variety of stonecrop

hotter areas will find that it goes dormant in mid-summer although my plants have not done that and we have had a very hot summer

Symphytum grandiflorum | Creeping Comfrey Frances Palmer ~ Edmund de WaalWe call it a comfrey and as its name suggests, it will creep through the areas where you plant it. We use it under fruit trees and also as a ground cover in some of our bigger spaces in the garden that need filling as the bees just cant get enough of it and for us that is reason enough. We find it does not spread rampantly and we have found that it is not as deep rooted as our big Comfrey and we find we can easily dig it out if we want to move it and