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Transform your seed sowing with a heated propagator and you can sow earlier and expand your range to include frost-tender summer bedding and delicious greenhouse crops.
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Give hellebores the chance to shine by going round now snipping off last year’s old, tatty foliage right down at the base to expose the emerging flower buds. Use sharp secateurs and be really careful as it’s all too easy to snip off the flower buds themselves by mistake!
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Compact, handsome dwarf conifers really come into their own at this time of year. In a world of sepia brown, it’s lovely to have a neat splash of brilliant green, honey yellow or even steely blue to enjoy.
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The RHS has unveiled this year’s Chelsea Flower Show gardens and the world’s most famous flower show is set to be another cracker.
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Protect your plants from rabbits as they’re particularly active at this time of year, that with the breeding season approaching and little food around to eat.
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Christmas box, as Sarcococca is also known, spends its summer providing a deep green backdrop for other, brighter summer plants.
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Make an ivy topiary for a year-round living garden ornament that adds a focal point to designs and a little fun to your outside space!
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Grow citrus over winter and you can enjoy a double bonus – gorgeously scented pretty white flowers, and the gleaming yellow fruit borne on the tree at the same time.
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There can be no plant more Christmassy than a poinsettia, a striking beauty that flowers for months.
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Take good care of your real Christmas tree and it’ll last you right through Christmas and beyond Twelfth Night into the New Year!
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