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    May 19, 2021 4 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHS ANNAÏCK GUITTENY

    One of the keys to creating interesting planting combinations is the use of contrasting flower shapes and structures. This is why the flat-topped flowers of achilleas have become such a go-to plant for designers, providing a foil to the spires and spheres of other summer-flowering perennials.

    Not that this is the only attraction of these plants. “I love them for their colour variation – whether it’s bold pops of colour or pastel tones from ivory-white and shades of yellow and orange to a range of pinks and the deepest shades of red,” explains John Cullen, who is the custodian of a National Collection of at his

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