Sage Advice On Herbs ; Herbs Are the Perfect Way to Keep Your Garden Looking Luscious During the Drought with Colourful Flowers and Fragrant Foliage Throughout the Summer, Says Pattie Barron
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GLADIOLI and iris might be this year's stars at the Chelsea Flower Show, but the real troupers, featuring in most of the show gardens, are herbs. After all, what other plants offer year-round colour - just think of a perpetual landscape of silvers and greys and fir greens gracing the garden - as well as heavenly perfumes more potent than can be delivered in an all-over aromatherapy massage?
From late spring to autumn, the billowing mounds of thymes and lavenders and oreganos and co are covered with flowers in pastel shades that intoxicate humans, bees and butterflies alike. And once these plants have put down roots, you need water them no more; just the job for this summer's hosepipe ban.See the full content of this document
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Sage Advice On Herbs ; Herbs Are the Perfect Way to Keep Your Garden Looking Luscious During the Drought with Colourful Flowers and Fragrant Foliage Throughout the Summer, Says Pattie Barron
Therapeutic and pestresistant, tactile and beautiful, herbs - mostly from the Mediterranean, where they thrive in poor soil - make the ultimat e drought-proof plants. All you need do to help them thrive ...
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