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We love April

“April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year”
Vita Sackville-West

STAR OF THE MONTH

Dodecatheon pulchellum ‘Red Wings’

One of our more curious-looking garden flowers, they look as if they have been turned inside out, which gives them a particular aerodynamic profile – like a flock of determined (but friendly) garden birds descending on full feeders from an azure sky. You can see

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