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Exciting recommendations from our expert plantsman

Try our pick of the most beautiful plants you can buy now

Start exotic climbers off now to enjoy cascades of flowers and foliage for five months

Warm up chilly days with some sizzling blooms

At a time when much of the garden sleeps, winter flowers are all the more precious for their scarcity; an irrepressible bunch, undaunted by wind, frost or even a blanket of snow. Many are small, yet t