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Gardening: Pieris japonica brings a blaze of colour

The garden is brimming over with salmon pinks and flaming reds this week.

I have my hottest colours concentrated in one corner of the garden and the Pieris japonica has been doing an impression of the burning bush for a week or two.

Go Organic: Time for runner beans

French beans generally have a finer flavour, but nothing beats runners for productivity.

Rural Reading: Woodlands lush and green again

Most of the trees have come into leaf now, and all those barren woodlands have become lush and green again.

Gardening: Akebia quinata buzzing with bees

I was working close to the fence where the huge Akebia quinata commonly known as the chocolate vine is in flower and buzzing with bees.

Go Organic: Grown your own sweetcorn

Most of the vegetables you grow yourself will taste better than anything you can buy in the supermarket.

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Gardening: Wait for the soil to warm Go Organic: Time to feed the soil Rural Reading: Cold spring a cause for concern Gardeners asked to help with climate change survey Gardening: I made the most on our one sunny day Rural Reading: Winter weather shows nature's beauty Gardening: I would love a carpet of spring bulbs Go Organic: Purple sprouting broccoli Rural Reading: Sand martins herald the spring Learn all about squirrels Gardening: There's a rat at my bird feeder Go Organic: Time to sow hardy vegetables Rural Reading: Spring is on the way at last MP cuts ribbon for new tile warehouse Rural Reading: Wrens in full voice again

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