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    THE MAJESTY OF WINTER

    Sep 06, 2018 3 minutes

    So much of gardening is patience and planning. Sowing seeds and waiting for the first hint of a green shoot, biding our time until the right month to plant a tree, waiting for the first leaf, flower or fruit. And then everything seems to happen at once: summer arrives and everything bursts into colour – stems reach full height, fruit and veg ripen, everything blooms so fully and earnestly that you wonder if it’s going to outgrow its carefully allotted space…

    Then, before you know it, things start to go

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