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Thorny problems

When I've finished writing this I have to start heaving out wallflowers that are past their best. Actually, I don't grow many of them - just enough, in an assortment of pots and battered old galvanised buckets (with holes bashed in the base), to make a bit of a splash outside my sunny side gate. I can't, after all, let Norman-across-the-road, whose front garden is ablaze for much of the year with technicolour annuals, hog all the limelight (27/05) More