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You will have noticed that autumn is now advancing, and this brings much to do for the gardener. The view from your window will be much improved if you work daily through your herbaceous plantings, selectively deadheading here, removing brown tissue there, and tidying away the incipient signs of decay.
Of course, if you're a dahlia grower, this is a basic requirement, as things are now building to a crescendo. The principle behind deadheading is that it keeps up the impetus for further flowering, delaying the completion of the lifecycle. All the more for the compost heap.
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17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country LifeSomething for every budget in this week's round up of homes across the country that have come to market via Country Life.
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'We started thinking: if we were going to design a bike for Aston Martin, what would it look like? And then we simply couldn’t stop': Aston's new bike has everything you could ever dream of — except a price tagThe new Aston Martin .1R bicycle, a collaboration with manufacturer J.Laverack, leaves Paul Henderson stirred rather than shaken.
