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Thinking of planting your tender bedding? - It might pay to read this first

Posted by Phil Voice on April 26, 2008 at 9:22am
FrostThe weather is getting a little warmer and the days are starting to get to respectable lengths. Even the Oak trees - usually the last out - are stirring into life and it is time to plant out the summer bedding - or is it? I have written about 'Saints de Glace' and a period of May when winter takes one last icy bite and throws the chill of winter back into the garden. Landscape Juice: Woe betide the gardener who ignores the 'Saints de Glace'
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