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, then leave the main shoot to grow and remove any side shoots. Let each plant concentrate on forming a single stem and the resulting flowers should be bigger. You'll get less of them, but these long-stemmed fragrant flowers will look perfect in a vase.Some say

. In terms of value, a single perennial could cost you, say, £5.00 to buy, but you could pick up a packet of Godetia Dwarf Mixed flower seed for just £1.39, and grow 1,000 plants! Yes, 1,000 seeds in a packet, and other hardy annuals offer similar great value

'. This is a half-hardy annual from central Australia, and is heat and drought tolerant, as you'd expect of plants from this part of the world. 'Joey' grows to about 30-35cm tall and produces glorious feathery, silvery-pink plumes. I've never grown anything