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    What to plant for Bark and stem

    Dec 08, 2020 4 minutes

    FOR me, a great way of limbering up before a stint of leaf raking or compost spreading is to stride about the garden, homing in on specific areas that illustrate the joys of the season. Winter has the effect of stripping bare; however it also brings to the fore twiggy outlines and the extraordinary colours and textures of stem and bark. For most of the year these are masked by an abundance of summer growth; but choose the right trees and shrubs, and from leaf fall to spring, gardens come alive with snaking fissures, waxy lenticels and glowing stem tips.

    The beauty of bark

    Of course, this performance is not played out primarily for our benefit; it has

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