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    Choosing plants for hanging baskets in coastal situations

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    Hanging On

    Climbers in Cornwall

    'For coastal, read windy, this is often the reality of gardening near the coast. Those of us of more modest means are unlikely to be able to employ the classic Cornish solution of shelter belt planting with tens of thousands of trees, yet without some shelter growing climbing plants in such windy situations can be problematic.'
    by Charlie Pridham



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