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    Letters to Wendy

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7BF (please include your address). Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com

    Making more Hot Lips!

    MY garden, like thousands of others, became my focus during lockdown. Diligently pruning, sowing and planting, closely following advice, I had hopes of future improvement. Pruning my ‘Hot Lips’ salvia, I stuck stems into a pot of spent compost and some flowering stems into water to open indoors. The pot stems all took root, and to my surprise the flowering stems grew roots, too – something I have found

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