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12 jolly flowers for Easter!🐣

A late Easter can be a joyous thing, especially if it’s preceded by a fortnight of gorgeous weather!  All the spring flowers are leaping up and we each have our favourites to enchant us while we munch Hot Cross Buns and shameful amounts of chocolate.. Ah, spring is such a lovely time of year – […]

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To plant, perchance to dream

I have been in quarantine for a couple of weeks now with an impressively wheezy chest and have had to experience Christmas and New Year vicariously through E and C’s slightly competitive WhatsApp messages ‘We had 53 people to lunch on Christmas Day and danced till 2 am’ (E); it’s so hot here on Cyprus […]

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Spring Great Plants this Month

Abutilon vitifolium ā€˜Veronica Tennant’

Thanks are due to Laura who gave me this beautiful shrub as a small cutting a few years ago. I was already growing A x suntense which has stunning deep bluey purple flowers, but its season is fleeting, whereas ā€˜Veronica Tennant’ is in bloom from late spring until well into the summer. This is a […]

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Spring Great Plants this Month

Abutilon vitifolium ā€˜Veronica Tennant’

Thanks are due to Laura who gave me this beautiful shrub as a small cutting a few years ago. I was already growing A x suntense which has stunning deep bluey purple flowers, but its season is fleeting, whereas ā€˜Veronica Tennant’ is in bloom from late spring until well into the summer. This is a […]