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Wisteria

May 6, 2009
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Image by Mauro Across the road from the Garden from Scratch is the most enormous wisteria. It engulfs not just the building it was trained against, but the outbuildings, and the houses on either side. Local legend has it that the nearby church had pr
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Linnaea borealis

May 5, 2009
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Image by trilian Linnaea is quite a childlike, gentle plant. It’s perfect for shady, woodland areas, where the lampost-shaped blooms will appear from May till July.
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Dierama trichorhizum

May 4, 2009
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Image by Rob Cox A plant with as fanciful a name as ‘Angel’s Fishing Rods’ demands attention. But dieramas are not particularly popular with gardeners, which seems all the more reason to plant one. Deep pink skirted flowers bounce on 40cm-long stems,
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Nectaroscordum siculum

May 3, 2009
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Image by Jacky Parker This relative of the onion has firework showers of delicate white-purple blossoms from May till June. It is a perfect back or middle-of-the-border plant, reaching around 4ft, and works hard to earn its keep, with punky seedheads
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Papaver orientale ‘Perry’s white’

May 1, 2009
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Image by Lorie Oriental poppy flowers flit in and out of a border. They never last very long at all. But this transcience is at best part of their crisp beauty, and at worst something you can put up with for such a splendid show. Once you own a clump
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