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Rugged vibrancy

or patches of vivid colour in your. These flat-growing annuals, with their bright green, succulent, oval leaves and large cupshaped flowers in electrical colours with golden eyes, love the sunniest of spots in well-draining soil. They are very heat resistant and waterwise and will bloom all summer long. Size about 10 x 25cm.

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