Amateur Gardening

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Fact one - we all love our plants. Fact two – we’re all looking to introduce new shrubs and flowers to our wonderful, green spaces. Yet are we making the most of every available space in our gardens? Have we fully considered every single planting opportunity available to us? Well, in this feature I’m going to inspire you with some often overlooked, and exciting possibilities.

The process of planting our gardens has many similarities to the process of decorating the interior of our homes. We pull together a sympathetic palette of the colours we love in a way that

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