Amateur Gardening

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HERE’S a just for-fun competition for our AG readers. All you have to do is work out from the jumbled pictures (right) and the multiple choice (below) what the mystery plant is. So using the three options we’ve given you, what is the mystery flower?

Amateur Gardening

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ARCHITECTURAL plants have flowers or foliage with strong, sharp, or dramatic shapes. Garden designers use them to add interest and theatrical structure; their bold forms act as foils for softer plants, as well as creating visual accents that draw the

Country Life

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BEING a lover of primroses, I have planted great numbers in my Devonshire garden. Owing to the mild and early spring, many flowered in February; but every morning, to my disgust, I find dozens of flowers nipped off and strewn along the paths. At firs

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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Author: Mike Picker, Charles Griffiths and Alan Weaving Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa Language: English Pages: 300 Format: Paperback Retail price: R300 Even if you have the previous field guide published by these authors, you wil

The Gardener Magazine

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The Shasta daisy is every gardener’s favourite summer perennial, because it flowers non-stop and never gives its owner any problems. We have often waxed lyrical about the beautiful Leucanthemum ‘Daisy Mae’, with its large white single blooms, but wha

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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The compact ‘White Patio’ rose is proof you don’t need a garden to grow roses. Smaller varieties will flourish in containers and grace wedding bouquests. The scented, compact floribunda Princess of Wales (shown) also has creamy-white buds that open t

go: Platteland

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Whether you are looking to upskill yourself and take your hobby to the next level or are interested in a career as a field guide, this course will give you the practical and theoretical training to become a recognised professional field guide. Volunt

BBC Gardeners' World

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■ Polypodium vulgare This compact fern is extremely tolerant of a variety of conditions, from dappled sun to shade, and dry to moist free-draining soils, making this British native perfect for a wall planter. ■ Aubrieta Part of the brassica family,

Cobblestone

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David Allen Sibley (RIGHT) has loved birds since he was a young boy. He is an illustrator and an author of numerous books about birds. The Sibley Guide to Birds is considered one of the best field guides for North America. His new book, What It’s Lik

The Gardener Magazine

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Echeverias (Mexican rock rose) are the most popular of all succulents, with an instantly recognisable rosette shape that looks like a perfect rose in full bloom. Over the years hundreds of variations have been bred, one of the most striking being ‘Bl

Save Our Seas

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The first illustrated field guide to the manta and devil rays of the world was published in 2018 by Wild Nature Press. ‘Aside from the mantas, mobulids are generally a very poorly studied group of fishes. The main reason that a book like this has not

Amateur Gardening

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1 Place your basket on a bucket to steady it and start adding container compost, which is light, free-draining and nutrient-rich. 2 Add your central plant to give some height. Carnations, fuchsias, pelargoniums and marguerites are all possibilities.

The Paris Review

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In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged thirty years and younger. The idea took shape when Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney, the bookstore’s owners, observed that “the women who regula

Amateur Gardening

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Alchemilla mollis: The classic green foam that looks wonderful intermingled into bouquets, linking all the other colours together. In the garden, it’s a classic under roses, self sowing all around. ‘Robustica’ is more upright and better for cutting.

Amateur Gardening

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✓ Compact varieties, such as ‘Dwarf Green Curled’ and ‘Raven’ can be grown to maturity in large containers; place three plants per half-barrel. ✓ Modern breeders have developed varieties with higher sugar levels to recruit kale converts, such as ‘Can

The Gardener Magazine

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Convolvulus sabatius (bindweed) is a groundcover that is perfect for two uses: retaining walls and as a floral carpet around tall roses in a large rose bed. It is fast growing with a flat, spreading growth habit and dense, mint-green leaves below mas

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Gorgeous mauve-pink flowers will adorn this gently trailing pelargonium for months – just as long as you grow it in sun and keep deadheading. The leaves smell of lemon and rose. H: 45cm. Rich and velvety, the blooms are maroon-black with golden throa

Amateur Gardening

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If you must have summer bedding in pots, opt for plants that don’t require watering quite so religiously. Tender geraniums offer flowers in a choice of reds, pinks, purples, white and bi-colours; some also have scented leaves. H: Varies. With their f

Amateur Gardening

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Sternbergia lutea AGM: The winter daffodil looks (somewhat confusingly) just like a crocus; however it’s much taller and blooms in October. Likes to be sheltered, warm and dry, so plant 3in (8cm) deep in well-drained soil at the base of a sun-drenche

Amateur Gardening

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SAYING it with flowers is one of the oldest ways of showing love, and with Mother’s Day rolling up on 22nd March, why not show someone you care with a pot of colour? A patio container planted up with seasonal flowers is a wonderful way of brightening

Woman's Weekly

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✣ A regular liquid feed and deadheading (or taking stems for a vase) will keep wallflowers in bloom for longer. ✣ By May, most biennials will have finished flowering, so pull them up, add to the compost heap and use the space for summer-flowering pla

Country Life

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Mr Baughan's favourite annual of all creates an intermittent wave of cherry-scented, violet-blue flowers along the front, with handsome dark-green, crinkle-textured foliage. Sow in mid March. Height: 1½ft A selected form of a Californian native with

Garden Gate

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It’s easy to forget about sideyards, those tricky strips of land between the house and property line. For many of us, these skinny spaces are challenging to landscape. It’s tempting to use them merely as passageways or an area to avoid altogether, wh

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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If you’re thinking of choosing scabious seeds (also known as pincushion flower), the mauves, dark oranges, whites and pinks of a collection such as ‘Tall Double Mix’ are pretty for informal bunches, but it’s the deep crimson form I like best. They li

Home

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Calibrachoa ‘Good Night Kiss’ is vivid and luminous with bright rose-pink blooms featuring a dark, burgundy throat and five yellow lines forming a star in the centre. Also known as the trailing petunia for its small, petunia-like flowers, this new re

Amateur Gardening

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WHEN choosing planting companions for tulips bear in mind the following: ▪ Tulips like sun and free-draining soil so anything you plant with them will need to favour the same conditions. ▪ While having everything in flower at once will make a wonderf

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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No summer garden is complete without an agapanthus. Flowering mid to late summer, the blue cultivars are the perfect companions for dark-red dahlias, brown heleniums, yellow or red hemerocallis, and all manner of kniphofias. Alternatively, white agap

Country Life

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Dianthus carthusianorum with Campanula ‘Crystal’ The shocking pink dianthus, a Chelsea favourite, has grassy-grey evergreen leaves that work well with the ovate- to heart-shaped foliage of this ice-blue bellflower Thalictrum flavum ‘Illuminator’ with

Amateur Gardening

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Known as mouse plant, this arum lily relative from Spain and Italy will delight younger children, who love to search for the brown, tail-like tips of hooded flower spathes, which are tucked in among the arrow-shaped leaves. HxS: 6inx1ft (15x30cm). Fo

Amateur Gardening

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Aquilegias favour dappled shade, but they will grow in full sun in cooler gardens where the soil is moist. In general, they need moist, well-drained, sandy or loamy soil – although the alpines prefer very well-drained soil and a bit more sunshine. Th