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    America: the great!

    Jun 30, 2020 5 minutes
    Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

    This week it’s:

    THIS Saturday is Independence Day in the USA. The ‘Fourth of July’ is when the whole country celebrates the signing of its independence, in 1776, from British King George III. In those days, the US comprised 13 British colonies that sat along the Atlantic coastline. The rest of the massive country was to the west.

    Today, the US is around 9.6 million square kilometres (50 times larger than Britain). It has a wealth of native plants, as well as a very large and progressive horticultural industry, with many new plants coming from the States. Let’s look at some of them.

    Not all US imports are good. Remember the Colorado beetle? Native to America, it’s a major pest of potato crops, and came to Europe in 1859.

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