Synopsis
Euphorbia Myrsinites AGM - Care and Maintenance
This evergreen glaucous succulent plant is often a mess in the garden, once the
lime green flowers are over, they straggle out with long bare stems.
One tip to contain some of the straggling is to enclose the plant – here I have
used some thick rope, found on the beach, wound round the base of the plant.
Other ideas could be a ring of bricks, the bottom cut out of a basket.
Many people are unsure what to do with this plant once it has become untidy
and are a bit nervous to apply the secateurs.
Fear not; they are happy to be chopped back as soon as the flowers have
faded. This will probably be around the end of May.
Wear gloves while doing this as the white sap can be an irritant to skin and is
quite sticky, so not very pleasant.
Chop the flowering stems right back to the ground, you may well see some
new growth beginning, leave these, they will grow on and bush into a compact
mound of bluish grey for the rest of the summer. This will then compliment
other summer flowering plants – shown here with verbena rigida and
eryngium.
Other names often given to Euphorbia Myrsinites are: Myrtle spurge, glaucous
spurge, blue spurge.
Euphorbia Myrsinites is a succulent perennial, it is tolerant of drought and salt
so is an ideal seaside, shingle type garden. It is also low maintenance.
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