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     Great Winter Flowering Shrubs
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    By Alan Down
    In Evergreens, Gardening tips, Seasonal Gardening, Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs, Winter colour
    Posted December 12, 2020

    Great Winter Flowering Shrubs

        Great winter flowering shrubs can shorten winter! Is that overstating it? Well perhaps, but it can certainly make those dark dank days of winter more bearable!   It will be [...]

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     Seasonal Evergreens for Christmas
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    By Alan Down
    In Container gardening, Evergreens, Seasonal Gardening, Trees and Shrubs, Winter colour
    Posted November 29, 2020

    Seasonal Evergreens for Christmas

    Seasonal evergreens for Christmas include bay laurel, rosemary, holly and ivy. They all have their place at this time of the year but I do wonder if we sometimes forget how valuable they are in [...]

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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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    Aloysia citrodora (was Lippia) lemon verbena really enjoying the heat @NTSouthWest #Tintinhullgarden
    Have you ever made tea/infusion from it?
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    Alan E Down · 18 hours ago
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    Have you seen surprising differences to drought in #garden #plants? These are closely related but reacting very differently. Rudbeckia Goldsturm ok but R. fulgida deamii really stressed.
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    Alan E Down · 2 days ago
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    It may not look much but we’ve been harvesting #strawberries almost every week since May! These #fruit are a 2nd crop from the plants that cropped first in May! #gyo #growyourownfood
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