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horticultural industry, and the foundation of our spring and summer gardens, because they are cheerful, familiar, colourful, easy and cheap. But wait a minute – easy and cheap? I don’t think so! After you buy them, they have to be watered regularly to get them established, and often you have to wait months before they fill their space, and then you have to constantly deadhead them

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