Amateur Gardening

Year-round interest

This extract from AG 16 March 1968 looks at various plants that provide interest all year round

IT is possible to have lots of colour throughout the garden for seven or eight months of the year, but it is costly and few amateur gardeners attempt it nowadays. This is something best left to the public parks and to those large gardens that open more or less permanently as a public spectacle. But this does not mean that continuity of interest cannot be maintained even in very small gardens. It is in the early stages of planning that the foundations of this continuity should be laid.

First, there is the very important matter of choosing the right shrubs, for these will be

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