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    Grow Periwinkle Plants
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    By Alan Down
    In Gardening tips, Ground cover plants, Hardy perennials, Low maintenance gardening, Plant Focus, Weed control
    Posted March 3, 2022

    Grow Periwinkle Plants

    To grow periwinkle plants is not difficult! They are an easy to please plant that provides effective evergreen ground cover. This results in low maintenance gardening but also is good for nature. [...]

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    Green Roofs
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    By Alan Down
    In Gardening for Wildlife, Ground cover plants, Urban Gardening, Wildlife
    Posted January 20, 2021

    Green Roofs

    Green roofs are slowly but surely appearing in Britain. It’s not that they are new it’s just that they we Brits seem to intrinsically mistrust them. Or is the cost that makes us hold [...]

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    Let’s hear it for ivy!
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    By Alan Down
    In Climbing and Wall Plants, Ground cover plants, Low maintenance gardening, Plant Focus
    Posted December 22, 2020

    Let’s hear it for ivy!

    Let’s hear it for ivy but first – Some background info Ivy is a much maligned garden plant. Builders hate it and think [wrongly] that it pulls buildings down. It all too often gets a [...]

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    Make life easier with Ground Cover Plants in your Garden
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    By Alan Down
    In Ground cover plants, Hardy perennials, Low maintenance gardening
    Posted March 17, 2020

    Make life easier with Ground Cover Plants in your Garden

    .Ground cover plants are such useful plants and can make for an easier life. A few years ago I visited a friend’s garden that was open in aid of charity. This was a very big garden full of lovely [...]

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    Winter Flowering Heathers
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    By Alan Down
    In Ground cover plants, Low maintenance gardening, Plant Focus, Winter colour
    Posted February 19, 2020

    Winter Flowering Heathers

    Winter flowering heathers give tremendous value for money and are arguably the most reliable winter flowering low growing plant. This is the type of heather that will grow in the gardens [...]

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    About Alan

    Flora and fauna have always fascinated me but it was a lifelong career in horticulture that filled most days.

    Having grown up on a farm where boyhood days were filled with discoveries of the natural world I soon found that my passion for plants – wildflowers at that time – would direct my career…

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    Back from #chelseaflowershow2022 and into the #garden !
    1st picking of broad bean Luz de Otono and there loads. @KingsSeeds_UK https://t.co/TNCG6V0eVL
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    Great result for your very first #ChelseaFlowerShow ! https://t.co/oh7MJglfqY
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