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Social climbers or rampant pests?

Post author By the3growbags
Post date August 18, 2017
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There are two ways you can achieve a last hurrah in your garden from late summer climbers: perennials or annuals. In the wild climbers rely on the support of other plants to reach up to the light so are naturally gregarious creatures, happy to mix in with whatever plant populations already exist in your garden […]

Tags Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, Cobea scandens 'Alba', stephen lacey, Dolichos lablab 'Ruby Moon', Tropaeolum speciosum, Campsis radicans, Clematis 'Bill Mackenzie', Cl. viticella 'Etoile Violette', Humulus lupulus aureus, Vitis vinifera purpurea, Cobaea scandens, Mandevillia laxa

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Gardening Heroes – it takes all types

Post author By the3growbags
Post date June 23, 2017
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Can you remember the exact moment when you realised gardening wasn’t boring? I ask the question as I have watched young adults recently realise that politics isn’t boring when their country’s parliament is apparently an asylum run by lunatics. Nor is gardening – for me it was a comment in an obscure book that the world […]

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