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10 plants with high summer PIZAZZ!

In the harsh sun of August, flower-colours can look washed-out and flat.  What is needed are some plants that will shine brightly in high summer, popping and fizzing in answer to glaring light.   Don your shades, here we go with some of our favourite zingers……… 1. What wonderful summer-flowerers perennial phloxes are!  They like sun and good […]

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10 of our favourite plants for cutting

C. 'Purity'

Some flowers are just horrible in a vase, aren’t they! For a start off, some smell AWFUL – flowering currant (Ribes) smells of cat’s pee, crown imperials (Fritillaria imperialis) smell of foxes, and sea hollies (Eryngium) smell of …..poo!   But there are some blooms that are perfect for a vase indoors and we 3Growbags […]