Five-star plant selection
May 04, 2021
4 minutes
Part 1
WE are all careful shoppers nowadays, always on the lookout for the ‘best buy’. It is as sensible to do this when choosing plants for the garden as when buying furniture for the home or a new car. Good plants are no more difficult to grow than poor ones, and they give a great deal more pleasure.
Nor is it always sufficient to know which are the best species to buy. Plants are variable things and clever gardeners are always on the lookout for superior varieties or forms. I’ll start my new series by looking at 25 of the best shrubs for your garden – 12 this week and 13 next week.
1. Aucuba japonica ‘Variegata’
This is one
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