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           <title>COLUMN: Mulching is worth it</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[MULCHING is such a useful process and so simple. ]]></description>
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           <title>COLUMN : Canny evergreens</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Canny gardeners can make use of evergreen flowering shrubs, topiary and textured plants during the summer months]]></description>
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           <title>Patio plants for summer</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[As summer beckons, many gardeners will now be deciding which patio plants to feature in their scheme, but it’s a difficult job as there’s so much choice and plants can vary greatly in quality.]]></description>
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           <title>Tough, hardy perennials, daylilies earn their place in the garden</title>
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  With a name like ‘Daylily’ you might take some convincing that these particular flowers make a worthwhile and long-lasting impact in the garden. Even their scientific name of Hemerocallis in
  translation tells the same story - ‘beautiful for a day.’ There is certainly some truth in this title through the short lived nature of the flowers. Each individual bloom opens at dawn and is done
  for by dusk. But fortunately for us, there are always plenty more ready to open the next day, and they continue to put on a good show for just as long as their neighbours.
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           <title>Chillis spice up the greenhouse</title>
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  Some like it hot - but others may not. As far as spicy food goes, I’m certainly in the latter camp, but realise I am in something of a minority as modern tastes yearn for new, exotic and ever
  hotter culinary challenges.
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           <title>Catmint - delightful and dependable</title>
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  Catmint, though never a centre-stage, star performer would win prizes for its supporting roles. Always dependable and always delightful, this hardy herbaceous perennial brings joy in a subtle and
  relatively subdued way for many months every year. More extrovert, flashier flowers burn up and out in a fraction of that time.
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           <title>Opium Poppies are ephemeral beauties</title>
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  A garden’s structure is made up of the long established elements of walls, steps and pathways. Alongside these, there are the seemingly permanent fixtures of trees, shrubs, hedges and climbers.
  Herbaceous plants return to fill their allotted space year after year, so it is often down to our use of annuals to introduce an exciting element of change into the scene. Through them, the
  artistic gardener can experiment and paint with an ever changing palette of colour and form.
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           <title>Giant Scabious has a big personality</title>
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  PLANTS are like people. Some are challenging to keep and cultivate, while others are easygoing and content to merge into the background. Then there are those few flamboyant performers who like to
  take centre stage. Too many of the latter could be hard work, but now and again in life and the garden these characters can lift the scene.
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           <title>Red Rose of Lancaster - a rose of great antiquity</title>
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  MIDSUMMER is when roses really begin to get going, and for the true old roses it is their only period of bloom. What these may lack in repeat flowering, they more than make up for in the quantity
  and quality of their annual display.
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           <title>The much celebrated ‘wildflower meadow'</title>
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  FOR some, endless time and money can be spent in keeping lawns pure, producing the ultimate in soft, green velvet carpeting, set off to perfection in alternating stripes. Wondrous to behold, and an
  admirable garden element for those with the energy and inclination to produce it.
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           <title>Lilium pyrenaicum is the one for me</title>
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  LILIES can be some of the most opulent and extravagant flowers in the garden. Their huge, waxy pendant blooms often providing a deep, overpoweringly heady, sweet scent. Gorgeous illustrations in
  the bulb catalogues prove almost irresistible.
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           <title>Flowers of thistle Cirsium rivulare Atropurpureum will earn their place in your border</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  THISTLES are some of the most pernicious and obnoxious weeds ever invented. The standard farmer’s nightmare version spreads far and wide via tough underground roving roots, and sends forth clouds
  of airborne seeds to colonise pastures new. Its fiercely prickly nature ensures grazing animals won’t touch it, and its ambitions for world domination have seen laws passed against it. Approaching
  them in anything less than stout boots, thornproof clothing and leather gloves is not to be recommended.
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           <title>Stachys macrantha is eye catching at the moment</title>
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  I LOVE to see labels in other peoples gardens, but hate them in my own.
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           <title>Peonies rich, sensual, and seductive beauty captivate gardeners</title>
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  FLOWER fashion is being set for the season right now at Chelsea Flower Show, the world’s foremost horticultural event. Plant breeders and nurserymen vie with each other to produce the best displays
  and promote their finest new varieties. Garden designers painstakingly create stunning mini landscapes just for the week. Celebrities mingle, attempting to outshine the dazzling displays. Garden
  pundits air their opinions on what is in and what is out in the garden world.
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           <title>Laburnums create stunning showers of ‘Golden Rain’</title>
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  AS SPRING merges into early summer we are yearly rewarded with the emergence of fresh foliage on trees. Throughout the landscape they are looking at their absolute best. Their bright, light greens
  are seen in every shade and texture, far removed from late summer’s duller leaden hues. Its the time of year too when many of our favorite flowering trees erupt into bloom and none is a finer sight
  this month than the laburnums.
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           <title>The beautiful ‘Bleeding Heart’ is a cottage garden favourite</title>
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  Surprisingly, some of our most delicate looking plants are among the toughest and this is certainly the case with the beautiful ‘Bleeding Heart’ or Dicentra spectabilis as it is scientifically
  known. Its fleshy pink shoots appear so brittle and tender when they first push through in spring. They quickly reach up to two feet or more in height and seem strangely insubstantial in holding
  aloft the graceful ferny foliage. Those watery stems are well up to the job, however, and more than capable of supporting the plant’s copious flowering too.
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           <title>Camassias lengthen the flowering season</title>
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  WE HAVE long enjoyed the beauty and benefit of naturalising bulbs in grass. Those early spring favourites, snowdrops, crocus and daffodils have been the staple of such displays. The lengthening
  grass serving to effectively hide the bulb foliage as it dies back.
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           <title>Springtime blossom is so precious</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  THIS is that wonderful time of year when hedgerows, woods, orchards and gardens explode into exuberant blossom. First off the mark are the snow white drifts of blackthorn threading their thick
  lines through the countryside, soon followed by the wild white clouds of damson. Plums too, for fruit or garden ornament swiftly follow.
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           <title>Get to know your weeds!</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  APRIL’S showers and warm spring sunshine are getting our plants off to a flying start. But, great conditions in the garden will also make for good growth in weeds. They would happily take over if
  it were not for our timely interventions, but I still have the greatest respect for these ‘plants in the wrong place.’ After all, they are generally just our most successful and better adapted
  native wild flowers. They were around long before our plots came into existence, and justifiably see your well prepared soil as their rightful home.
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           <title>Pulmonarias - superb spring flowering ground cover plants</title>
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  The longer a plant has been in cultivation, the more common names it collects along the way. This week’s focus is on ‘Pulmonaria,’ and this lovely spring flowering, cottage garden favourite has
  picked up many through the years.
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