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and robust in spirit) is a bit like a camel: it carries all the nutrition and energy it needs within its pale skin already. This means that it will flower without much help from us (at least for this year it will) no matter how late you plant them.So I reckon

level. Yes, I know that you are cutting off all the flowers and I also know that it looks a bit shorn and embarrassed after this treatment, but it is the best choice.The plant will grow new foliage very quickly and will still have time to flower

It is a very old and trusted maxim that ‘a weed is just a plant in the wrong place’. I don’t know who said it originally, but part of me rather wishes that it had been me. The other part of me wants to punch whoever coined the expression

shade.Sarcococca confusa (Christmas box)A winter flowering, highly scented shrub. Compact in size, Sarcococca is ideal for planting near a pathway or gate.Viburnum tinus (laurustinus)This is a workhorse of a shrub, which has pinkish-white flowers

of the brassica family, which is apparent in the flowers. It grows best near water, hence its presence by my ditch.As folklore has it, this plant is sacred to the fairies and is therefore unlucky if brought indoors. I have no idea what terrible revenge the fairies