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  • The English Garden

    All Change

    Nov 06, 2019 2 minutes
    WORDS CLARE FOGGETT

    Summer has its blowsy flowers and bright colours, but winter brings with it more subtle pleasures: diminutive flowers with delicious scent; interesting bark revealed by falling leaves; and unexpected changes noticed only by the most observant. The ten plants here reward careful inspection during the winter months because that’s when the season’s colder temperatures bring about an unusual effect.

    All of them are evergreen, but their leaves

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