Stachys byzantina

'Big Ears' lamb's ears (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

Groundcover plants: the resilient and the fussy

Judith Adam

How the groundcover plants have fared during the heat and drought. Watering once a week hasn’t been adequate for some plants.

'Etna' rose (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

Bare-root roses

Judith Adam

Time to order bare-root roses. Growers with their own propagation fields offer roses you might not find started in pots at a garden centre

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