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Roses at Downside
The David Austin roses are still unavailable to us. These are Hybrid Tea/shrub rose hybrids and their virtue is that they flower all season like their Hybrid Tea antecedents. They are not the only ones however; other breeders have been working and producing similar hybrids, which are every bit as...
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Zinnias, Magellan, Impatiens, Brugmansia
The cut flower Zinnias we grow in the vegetable garden (Benary’s Giant) were greatly admired last year. They need little support and produce splendid bunches of flowers until the frosts. They last a good week or more in a vase. They would also look well planted in a herbaceous border....
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Dahlias, Sonata, Casanova, Razzmuatazz
The seed rows of Dahlias are also excellent value, a lovely colour mix and many doubles and semi-doubles. By the end of the season, they will have made small tubers so you can lift and store any you like particularly. There will be no tall white Cosmos this year due...
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Annuals and tender perennials
Very few people actually have traditional beds of annuals nowadays but brighten up their gardens with easily cared for tubs and containers. Many of the basket plants are in fact tender perennials. The virtue of the whole crop, annual and perennial, is that the plants flower all summer long. A...
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