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    Give it some welly

    Jun 15, 2022 3 minutes
    Alan Titchmarsh
    ‘A soggy bottom holds no fear’

    I CAN think of few things more uncomfortable on a daily basis than wet feet. Give me a good pair of wellies and I am happy. There are plants, however, that relish having their feet in water. A soggy bottom holds no fear for them; quite the reverse, they revel in it. Position them at the side of a stream where the water supply is

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