Delving into the information about the clematis, the most interesting thing is the etymology and even that isn't very interesting - the name derives from the Ancient Greek for 'climbing plant'...hmmm...
...it is pretty and at our place is sprawling languidly along the length of a weathered grey fence, so indeed is a lovely feature during Spring...
...maybe more interesting is why it caught my attention today...?
...well, I was working away, filling barrowloads of sawdust, actually as we have a giant sack ('fadge') of untreated saw dust lying across the driveway next to the clematis at the moment...why, do we have one of these?
...well, it's about worms, actually, and drainage, too, and less weeding in the vegetable gardens...
...many moons ago we had a wonderful Mandala-design vegetable garden at our previous property in the country and the paths we made were all dug by Aaron and wwoofers and then filled with sawdust, which was trampled to compact it lightly.
The paths were in effect 150mm deep drainage channels between the garden beds that over time became attractive to worms and also kept weeds to a minimum and slowly added carbon to the neighbouring soil.
When gardening permaculture-style, one of the principles is to find multi-purpose solutions to problems - and this, I believe is one of them!
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