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called Panicum 'Rehbraun', planted with Cosmos 'Dazzler' and the fabulous Tithonia rotundifolia (pictured, top) that are bushy and wonderful, but I completely forgot to plant anything for spring: no tulips, no alliums, no nothing. As a result I had

. The cleverest trivial fact I know about them is that they only spring closed if two hairs are touched simultaneously. This stops it using up a lot of energy unnecessarily on very small meals. It eats more than flies*.A larger group are sarracenias or pitcher

.Stachyurus praecox - deciduous shrub that grows to about 3m high. The hanging, greenish flowers in early spring (before the leaves appear) are very pretty. Leaves good in autumn as well.Magnolia denudata - one of the finest magnolias which flowers a couple of weeks

soil as possible and store the energy-packed tubers in a dry, frost-free place until spring. I have decided to try a bit of an experiment this year and am going to leave some of my dahlia tubers in the ground. Instead of digging them up, I will cover

and miserable).If your fences are a bit ramshackle, held up by bits of string or leaning exhausted against a convenient tree, then early spring is a good time to sort them out.First you need to establish who owns the fence. If you are lucky there will be some

of the year. Then, after a brief spring, there are a couple of months of tongue-swelling heat before an equally brief autumn and then, bang - the snow returns.So what to plant? Certain trees are a given - Betula pendula (birch) of course. Russia is covered