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Poppies
June 1st, 2020
Poppies are beautiful plants to grow in your garden. They are especially good in drier conditions on poorer soils. The photo above is from my garden. As you can guess, I love plants and as a designer the art of combining them creatively and harmonising them as backdrops against hard landscape materials.
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