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Climbers
Ivy Hedera 'Goldheart'. This has pink stems, that turn brown with age. The leaves are dark green with an irregular splash of yellow in the middle. It is a little slow to get going but is worth it. It's habits are ... [... more]
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Move Large Shrubs
With most evergreen shrubs and deciduous shrubs it is a good idea to try and reduce the foliage area by trimming them back. Conifers should be trimmed extensively, remembering that the foliage will not re-grow if you cut back into the brown area ... [... more]
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Lavatera Mont Blanc
This is a modern variety of an old cottage garden plant, very hardy and fast-growing, and freely seeding itself for future years - the ripe seeds are easily gathered for storing before pulling plants up in the autumn. It is a native of southern ... [... more]
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Rosemary
Rosemary is one of the oldest Mediterranean aromatic shrubs in cultivation. It is still regarded as an essential culinary and medicinal herb, with an invigorating spicy flavour. As a specimen garden plant it is handsome and impressive at all ... [... more]
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Flowering Quince
Chaenomeles x superba flowers very heavily and tends to grow wider than it is tall, an advantage when wall trained. A tough and very hardy shrub, popular for late winter and early spring colour in almost any situation in the garden. Plants flower ... [... more]
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Homeleigh Garden Centre, Launceston, Somerset
Homeleigh garden centre is in a rural area where the soil tends to be on the acidic side and many gardens are in coastal areas. With this in mind they not only stock the normal range of garden plants but have also concentrated on plants suitable ... [... more]
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Flooding
Sally Smith, Head of the Advisory Service at Garden Organic, is optimistic about the recovery of garden plants. "As long as your plants have been under water less than a week, most things should be ok." However, to be on the safe side, Sally ... [... more]
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Canary Creeper
Apart from common nasturtiums, there is a group of related Tropaeolum species which all make lovely garden plants. Most popular of these is the Canary creeper, an extraordinary climber with deeply divided palm-shaped leaves and heavily fringed ... [... more]
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Rosemary
Rosemary is one of the oldest Mediterranean aromatic shrubs in cultivation. It is still regarded as an essential culinary and medicinal herb, with an invigorating spicy flavour. As a specimen garden plant it is handsome and impressive at all ... [... more]
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Mugwort
An outstanding silver foliage plant for the rock garden. Plants form hummocks at first, and then broaden out into deep mats of narrow leaves, which are arranged in tight-knit rosettes and give the plant a particularly beautiful texture. Unlike ... [... more]
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Japanese Aralia
Often grown as a foliage houseplant for cool situations, this is also a very successful shade-tolerant garden plant. It is suitable for seaside gardens, or against warm walls and in sheltered corners inland - hard frost can injure the leaves, but ... [... more]
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