Many desirable low-growing shrubs get irritatingly tatty through the winter months, but if they're cut back hard to tidy them up, winter cold and wet will often polish them off altogether. Now is the time to step forth with shears and secateurs.
The arch-offender is usually Santolina, with its less than endearing tendency to fall apart. Cut it neatly off just above ground level and dispose of the debris. Your eye will soon turn to Artemisia species for the same treatment.
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Tim Burton is selling the house he shared with Helena Bonham-Carter, a sublime home on the Thames that comes with three private islandsMill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, might just be the perfect English country home.
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Puffins and shearwaters, skuas and terns, gannets and gulls and guillemots and wings, these are a few of our favourite things (seabirds)From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills.
