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Amelanchier lamarckii close up
Plum or damson fan close up
Tree
Features
Acer griseum
Flaking bark and autumn colour
Acer palmatum ‘Inaba-shidare’
Purple foliage
Amelanchier lamarckii
White flowers, black berries, autumn colour
Caragana arborescens ‘Pendula’
Yellow flowers
Cercis siliquatrum
Pink flowers
Cotoneaster ‘Hybridus pendulus’
Red berries semi evergreen
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’
Pink flowers, red berries
Magnolia stellata
White or pink flowers
Malus ‘John Downie’
White flowers yellow / red crab apples
Prunus ‘Kiku-shidare-zakura’
Pink flowers
Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’
Grey foliage
Sorbus ‘Joesph Rock’
Yellow berries
Sorbus vilmorinii
Red berries, autumn colour
Sorbus hupehensis
White or pink berries
microgreens in the last ten years both commercially for the supermarkets and by gardeners. They are very easy to grow and
will count as one of your five a day, take up virtually no space and add some healthy food to your meals. There are a range of crops to grow including cress, alfalfa, pea shoots, beetroot, broccoli and radish.
Finally, try to reduce the amount of plastic used in the garden. Where you have to use plastic try to recycle it as often as possible. Plastic pots and seed trays can be reused many times as can plastic labels. Waste items from the kitchen like yogurt pots are good for growing young plants in if holes are made in the base
for drainage. Meat trays from the supermarket, washed out and again holes for drainage make excellent seed trays and can be used many
times.
If you would like further ideas of what can be done in the garden to help reduce climate change, please see Kelvin Mason’s book ‘Climate Adaptive Gardening’ published by The Crowood Press.
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