Among the usual cotoneaster, privet and box, Alys Fowler discovers a fearsome, foul-smelling Mediterranean arum This summer, I’ve spent rather a lot of time in Morrisons’ car park. At times, I’ve made daily trips, just to look at the strange things unfurling there. The place is full of all the predictable car-park planting – cotoneaster (which I may start guerrilla cloud-pruning), privet and box – plus lots of litter and undesirable desire lines. There’s a hell of a lot of bark mulch, too, which must be from the Mediterranean, for otherwise I have no idea how the dragon arum (_Dracunculus vulgaris_), a native to the Balkans, mainland Greece, Crete and the Aegean Islands, appeared. Continue reading...
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