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    WORDS OF WISDOM

    Feb 21, 2023 3 minutes

    In this extract from AG 2 March 1968, Christopher Lloyd looks at the longest flowering shrubs

    Long-flowering shrubs

    Christopher Lloyd explains which shrubs provide the longest flowering seasons throughout the year

    HERE are many favourite flowering trees and shrubs that have a desperately short season of beauty, lasting only the inside of a week. The flowering cherries are notorious for this, yet we enjoy them so intensely in their brief glory that recollection tricks us into imagining that they are not really so ephemeral.

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