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Late summer-flowering shrubs that are now showing signs of life (e.g. hardy fuchsia, ceratostigma and hypericum) can be cut back to points just above healthy new shoots
The Telegraph
Broaden your taste horizons with some eclectic perennial planting. Elect vegetables for nutrious meals year after year.
The Guardian
Conscientious allotmenteers set up a near assembly line this month as they sow, or prick out, or pot on, harden off and transplant the multitude of different vegetables one after the other. It is monotonous work but the rewards for being ahead of the game from the start of the year are the earliest delicacies now – home grown asparagus, young broad beans cooked in the pod, the unrepeatable first peas of spring and salads.
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Fish, newts, dragonflies and some birds benefit from record rainfall levels, although hundreds of wading birds lose nests.
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Lord Taylor reveals Defra is considering agreement with councils to drive plastic recycling
The Mirror
The English wildflowers are out too, aquilegia, cowslips, primroses. To match them we have the geraniums, vincas and my pride and joy – Saxifraga ‘London Pride’.
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