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culling—an opportunity to thin out the extensive order form—but strangely enough (and I don't know if this happens to other people) the list actually gets longer. The catalogues are as irresistible as ever.I won't sacrifice any of those 'regulars

last week). It is a good moment to look back on the triumphs and disasters in our gardens and to make notes, so that we do not make the same mistakes again.Allow me to share a few of my best mess-ups of 2010.My first is a mistake I did make last year

and family wear and tear. Surprising then that many gardeners never dream of putting something back - returning some of the nutrients removed during mowing. After all, lawns don't live on thin air! I won't ask for a show of hands, but the lawn abusers among

There is a range of easy-to-grow, climbing annuals that will flower non-stop from June until the frosts, producing striking blooms and sculptural leaves. Because they grow 1.8m to 3m or more in a season, half the joy is amassing so much plant from

- very striking swollen nodes on the culms. Only small at 1.5m with arching foliage.Fargesia murieliae - forms dense, arching clumps of very leafy canes. Spectacular on a terrace where the rustling and swaying becomes more mesmerising