Comfrey Sure Makes Itself Comfy
The resilient perennial will settle in — for good — wherever it can. Luckily, it also makes itself useful.
Fall is always a good time to assess the recent growing season and make notes to your future self about garden gains, losses, and the occasional horticultural mishap.
For instance, do not plant comfrey. You will never get rid of it. I avoid toxins of all sorts in the garden, but I am merciless with a trowel, a shovel, or a mattock when it comes to plant removal. After more than 15 years (and an excavator!) I give up. The comfrey is here to stay.
A couple of large clumps of comfrey at the margins of our property are the result of haplessly tossing a dug-up plant onto the weedy verge of the gravel driveway to wither and die in the afternoon sun so I could dispose of the remains in the clean green cart—I wasn’t about to risk my personal compost bin. Apparently, as often happens, I got distracted. Today those clumps are thriving, right where they landed.
Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is a free-flowering perennial with lush broadleaved foliage that almost looks tropical—picture a bristly hosta. All summer long the plant produces numerous arching wands of nectar-rich purple blooms that pollinators love.
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