That's what I said. Despite widespread unease, there is no shame in growing the gladiolus, which is an unfailingly reliable cut flower, with sufficient choice of colour and form to suit even yourself. The distinctive corms should be planted now. If they're for cut flowers, line them up in a row in the kitchen garden and plant them deeply, the length of the trowel blade, in soil well prepared with organic matter. Put a cane at each end of the row, ready to run a double length of twine to support the plants in due course. Then, just wait.
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Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curvesAmid the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Castle Howard Estate, The Silos is a property for which the word 'house' simply doesn't cut it. And that's not the only way in which it's made us throw out the dictionary.
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Polluting water executives now face up to two years in prison, but will the new laws make much of a difference?The Government has announced that water company executives caught covering up illegal sewage spills could now be imprisoned for two years, under new laws — but many still have their doubts.
