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    Add a royal flush of colour

    May 05, 2020 2 minutes

    LOVE a spot of airy elegance in the borders and this week’s free seeds provide exactly that. Cleome ‘Violet Queen’ from Sarah Raven is a beautiful, unusual, half-hardy annual that is less well known than many of the others. They are also known as ‘spider flowers’ because of their large blooms that

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