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Cancer Care, £450,000 for Help the Hospices and £350,000 for Crossroads Care. That is a pretty impressive bit of fund-raising bearing in mind it was raised by volunteers opening their gardens and selling (often absolutely delicious) cake

leaved shrub for a sheltered corner. I first saw this at the marvellous Stone House Cottage Gardens. The flowers are exquisite, like an underwater pincushion (and if my new garden is somewhere warm I will get fruit as well).Persicaria polymorpha

: I was told it by Kim Hurst from the Cottage Herbery at the Malvern Spring Show last year (the 2009 show, by the way, runs from 7-10 May; I hope to see you there) . Those of you sensible enough not to let mint run loose in your flower beds will have