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GARDENING

Hallelujah! Days are longer, fair-weather gardeners are emerging from their burrows and green shoots are shooting everywhere.

Hellebore-hunters are active. Galanthophile gurus are on their hands and knees, rear end uppermost bottomising, says a botanist friend. But Lent lilies and snowdrops aren’t the only flowers.

Of the several winter-flowering honeysuckles - shrubby, steadfast, easily grown, easily sourced -  unfailingly braves the

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