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Gardening tips: think pink for winter with viburnum https://t.co/7cABeAWA5I Solicitors & Estate Agents In One Just £899 + vat .. https://t.co/eLmKfiYyW9
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Plants to raise the winter spirits | Alys Fowler
When it’s cold and gloomy outside, let’s hear it for plants that flower in the depth of winter
It seems so vulnerable to bloom in these darkest of days, with the thinnest of sun rays to warm your nectar, and to do so naked, without the shelter of leaves, too: all that energy needed to flower, and borne on just a few bare twigs. There are not many plants that do, but those that choose to bear their flowers in the depth of winter are to be prized.
If you’re going to brave winter frosts and flower, shelter (as well as the promise of winter sun) is needed. In many smaller gardens, the ideal spot is against the house, where plants will benefit from the wall’s warmth (in summer, they will offer a pleasing green foil).
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Gardening tips: think pink for winter with viburnum
Plus the Brighton radio gardening show that’s bucking the trend, and why a bean trench ticks two boxes at once
A pink-flowered shrub might be a bit cloying in summer, but in winter, clusters of scented, rosy blooms on a bare-stemmed shrub are a welcome sight. Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ is a cinch to grow, tolerating most soils in sun or partial shade. Reaches 3m, but keep it in shape by pruning post-flowering.
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Plants to raise the winter spirits | Alys Fowler
When it’s cold and gloomy outside, let’s hear it for plants that flower in the depth of winter
It seems so vulnerable to bloom in these darkest of days, with the thinnest of sun rays to warm your nectar, and to do so naked, without the shelter of leaves, too: all that energy needed to flower, and borne on just a few bare twigs. There are not many plants that do, but those that choose to bear their flowers in the depth of winter are to be prized.
If you’re going to brave winter frosts and flower, shelter (as well as the promise of winter sun) is needed. In many smaller gardens, the ideal spot is against the house, where plants will benefit from the wall’s warmth (in summer, they will offer a pleasing green foil).
Continue reading...from Property | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2F93htJ
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Gardening tips: think pink for winter with viburnum
Plus the Brighton radio gardening show that’s bucking the trend, and why a bean trench ticks two boxes at once
A pink-flowered shrub might be a bit cloying in summer, but in winter, clusters of scented, rosy blooms on a bare-stemmed shrub are a welcome sight. Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ is a cinch to grow, tolerating most soils in sun or partial shade. Reaches 3m, but keep it in shape by pruning post-flowering.
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