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Summer is for flowers, whether it’s beds of colour co-ordinated perennials , multi-coloured eruptions of bedding plants from hanging baskets and containers, or the queen of summer shrubs – the rose.

Although you’re still busy, don’t forget to sit down and enjoy the fruits of your labours. Believe me, it’s all too easy to spend the whole time pottering and not relaxing!

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