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Article: Pots full of alpine pleasure; Charlie Dimmock creates stunning containers with an array of rugged mountain plants.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2004
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Byline: CHARLIE DIMMOCK
THE peak season for buying bedding plants is here, and everyone is starting to fill their containers. But what if you are no good at container gardening? It doesn't necessarily mean you can't have pots because there is an easy solution...alpine plants.
Bedding plants need replacing every season and mean loads of watering, feeding and deadheading, but alpines involve a lot less fuss.
You can leave them for years without replanting them because they are slowgrowing and don't need half as much watering or require deadheading.
But you still get a brilliant show in a small space. The flowers are quite ...