NODDING ACQUAINTANCES

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Helleborus x hybridus

Cut back leaves in early spring otherwise they tend to cover the emerging flowers.

HxS 35cm x 35cm

PLUM CHOICE

I have rather mixed feelings about this

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of the most perfect things you can imagine

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branches against an azure sky is a pretty

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varieties have foliage that is really dark and

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so are best in the company of other trees

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Prunus cerasifera

The cherry plum produces edible fruit after hot summers. Can be propagated from early summer cuttings. Can also be cut as a hedge.

HxS 10m x 8m

TINKLED PINK

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and the slugs had rampaged through all your freshly germinated seedlings. Then you come

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a bunch of these anemones and the cares

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Anemone coronaria ‘Sylphide’

Plant corms in autumn after soaking for 24 hours (because dried bulbs need a bit of plumpness to get going). Needs sharp drainage. HxS 30cm x 25cm