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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 6 August 2025

This small hardy perennial is most likely to be Lychnis flos-cuculi 'Nana' (ragged robin), a compact form of the plant of wet meadows in Europe, including Britain. It has a gently spreading habit forming a low rosette of blue-green, lance shaped leaves. Short stems carrying small, frilly pink flowers from May onwards.

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Perfect for well-drained shallow pans and troughs is Erodium × variabile 'Flore Pleno'. This is a low-growing, spreading perennial with small, double, pink flowers with darker veins, from late spring to early autumn

Jill Raggett

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 12 May 2024

On the top of a wall in Aberdeen, this low-growing evergreen shrub, probably Veronica pinguifolia 'Pagei' (hebe), was covered in a foam of white flowers.

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Gardening Against Destruction Control

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There are professional types of things that you can plant so the purpose of pest control. Garlic and marigolds are known to repel conclusive types of insects. Purpureous is known until keep ticks, ants, and mice away, while catnip, though it may be an sirenic stomping ground for neighborhood cats, repels insects as benignantly. Rosemary, sunflowers, and mint also profess pest control qualities. <\p>