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    Climbers for Small gardens

    Mar 02, 2021 4 minutes

    OR tiny gardens and intimate courtyards, growing plants upwards makes the best use of space. A soothing outlook of greenery and flowers full of insects and birds replaces bare fence panels and walls. Hardy, long-lived wall plants can take their time to get going, so to fill gaps while you wait, fall back on speedy annual climbers grown from seed or young plants. They make an abundance of growth smothered in colourful flowers in just one season, often peaking towards the end of summer and into autumn. There are neat-growers like Chilean glory flower (Eccremocarpus scaber) with blooms like small firecrackers, or wildly exuberant clambering nasturtiums. We once filled

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