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Article: gardening: Count on conifers for all-year colour.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2005
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WITH so much colour available in the summer months, we often forget the value of evergreens, yet plants such as conifers prove vital throughout the seasons, adding colour and structure to any scene.
National Conifer Week, organised by the Association of British Conifer Growers, runs from October 1-8 when garden centres will be offering a tempting range of conifers covering both well-known varieties and the more unusual for some "wow" factor.
Notcutts landscape designer Mark Pumphrey says conifers can be used effectively within a hot colour scheme to produce a modern look, and are ideal as a feature planting within a low maintenance gravel garden.
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