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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Allan Jenkins

Taking stock of the year’s winners and losers in the garden

Red Thai corn
Primary colours: there was a bounty of red Thai corn. Photograph: Allan Jenkins

Summer’s over. Winter stirs. Time then to take stock of the growing season. As always there’s much joy to be found. Our second year of rampant cosmos suphureus, originally from a friend in Vancouver. Maybe the easiest of all seed to save. Howard also grew them at home.

Our flower palette pretty much sticks to sweet peas, yellows, oranges and reds. Constant sunflowers, nasturtiums and calendula, and scarlet tagetes Ildkongen.

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