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text[number++] = "Get your annual climbers such as sweet peas, nasturtiums or black-eyed Susan (<i>Thunbergia alata</i>) off to a good start indoors, then set out their supports before you add the plants."
text[number++] = "Remember that it's what you like that matters - you're going to have to live with it."
text[number++] = "Wait until all risk of frost is past before you buy summer bedding plants, unless you can keep them undercover. Plant them out when you see your town parks department put theirs out."
text[number++] = "Colour-theme your autumn foliage display by choosing trees and shrubs with either red and purple, orange and bronze or yellow and brown leaf colours."
text[number++] = "Wait a while before you cut down big trees. They may be screening an ugly view, or serving as a wind-break. And they may have a preservation order on them - check with your local council."
text[number++] = "In a new garden, make sure you know what's there already before starting to dig and plant. Ideally, wait through a whole growing season to see what comes up."
text[number++] = "Find out how much sun each part of your garden gets at different times of day, and note any areas that are always in the shade. These factors are important when choosing plants or deciding where to put permanent features such as ponds or patios."
text[number++] = "Consider the architecture of your house when designing your garden. Older or 'period-style' houses look best with soft planting, gentle curves, and textured materials; modern architecture looks better with bold shapes and contemporary materials."
text[number++] = "Make long, narrow gardens look wider by making the path cross at an angle, or taper a central lawn so that it is wider at the far end."
text[number++] = "Make short, wide gardens look longer by putting the path in the middle, so it draws the eyes away from the sides, or taper a central lawn so it is narrower at the far end."
text[number++] = "Make long, narrow gardens look wider by making the path cross at an angle, or taper a central lawn so that it is wider at the far end."
text[number++] = "Break up large gardens with hedges, islands beds, or groups of trees or shrubs so that the whole garden isn't visible at once."
text[number++] = "Buy perennial plants and trees in containers and place them in position in the containers until you are sure they are in the right place."
text[number++] = "Concrete is a fast and cheap surface for paths and patios. Make it more attractive by running a patterned roller over the surface before it sets, or adding a colour to the mix. You can always add paving later when you can afford it."
text[number++] = "Save all your eggshells and crush them finely as a good source of calcium for plants. Mix them with your usual potting compost."
text[number++] = "Use eggshells as seed pots. Just put a little compost and a seed in each shell, then when the plant is ready to be moved on, gently crush the shell and plant the whole thing. This is a good way to give brassicas the lime they love."
text[number++] = "<strong><i>Dry off your eggshells in the oven, crush them coarsely, and sprinkle a ring round your tender plants to keep slugs and snails at bay. They hate to crawl over sharp things!</i></strong>"
text[number++] = "Consider leaf colour as well as flower colour when planning a single coloured planting scheme."
text[number++] = "Try a ‘traffic light’ bed, with red at the back, yellow in the middle and green in the front. You could even do this in the vegetable garden with beetroot, swiss chard and red lettuces; yellow tomatoes, golden courgettes and onions; and any of the green leaf vegetables."
text[number++] = "Try a ‘rainbow’ bed, with all the colours of the rainbow in their proper sequence. In case you’ve forgotten what they are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet."
text[number++] = "Accentuate your chosen colour with a few examples of another complementary colour. For instance, blue looks bluer with a little yellow."
text[number++] = "Work with nature rather than fighting it. Choose wild plants that would naturally grow in your district and on your type of soil."
text[number++] = "Avoid take-overs from colonising plants like celandine by restricting their roots."
text[number++] = "Where you are growing wild flowers in grass, be sure to remove the clippings when you cut the grass. Wild flowers do best in poor conditions, and grass clippings rot down to nourish the soil."
text[number++] = "Consider the cultural needs of different types of plants before locating them close together. The needs of one may be contraindicated for the other and your money and effects will be wasted."
text[number++] = "<strong><i>Grow garlic under roses to make the roses smell sweeter.</i></strong>"
text[number++] = "Grow onions and carrots together. The smell of onions confuses the flies and the smell of carrots confuses the onion flies."
text[number++] = "Plant pot marigolds (<i>Calendula</i>), nasturtiums, feverfew or borage close to anything that suffers from blackfly. The blackfly prefer these herbs and will leave the other plants alone."
text[number++] = "Water outside in the evening, when the sun isn't so hot, so the plants have the night to take up the water before the next day's sun dries it up."
text[number++] = "Water copiously once a week rather than a little bit every day. Sprinkles of water dont't penetrate the soil far enough to do any good."
text[number++] = "Spot-water individual plants such as tomatoes or newly planted ornamentals, by sinking a flowerpot into the soil next to them and filling it with water. Alternatively, cut the bottom off a plastic bottle and sink that into the soil with the neck near the roots."
text[number++] = "Lime-hating plants need lime-free water. If your tap water is chalky, save rainwater for these plants, or acidify your tap water with old tea bags."
text[number++] = "<strong><i>Put an old sock or stocking over the end of drainpipes</i></strong> to act as a filter and keep leaves and rubbish out of water butts."
text[number++] = "To keep the ground moist round any favourite shrub or tomatoes, fill a plastic bag with water, tie the neck tightly, tie it to a stick and make a pin-prick hole in the bottom. It should then take several days for the water to seep out. Add liquid manure when necessary."
text[number++] = "In the greenhouse, only water the plants that need it. Pick up each pot and feel its weight. If it feels light, water it, if not, don't."
text[number++] = "Install as many water butts as you can, linking them so that each one overflows into the next. Stand them up on bricks so that you can easily get a watering-can under the tap."
text[number++] = "In drought conditions, divert your bath and kitchen water into water butts. Plants can tolerate soap and a little detergent, but not bleach or salty water from dish-washers."
text[number++] = "Let the leaf-shape of your plants tell you how they want to receive water. As a rule, leaves are shaped and arranged in such a way that they will shed rain where the roots are."
text[number++] = "Make your hedges of easy-going shrubs which can be clipped once a year to retain their shape. Choose Mexican orange <i>(Choisya ternata)</i>, viburnum <i>(V.tinus)</i>, firethorn <i>(Pyracantha)</i>, or one of the bush roses which has attractive hips after flowering."
text[number++] = "When buying trees or shrubs for a low maintenance garden, choose those which will give different displays in different seasons. The ideal will have attractive flowers in the spring, good-coloured leaves in the summer, good leaf coloration in autumn, and interesting bark or fruit in the winter."
text[number++] = "If choosing evergreens, include some variegated forms, as too many dark greens can be depressing on damp winter days."
text[number++] = "For solid hedges, choose hedging plants that only need cutting once a year, such as yew, box, holly or beech. Avoid privet which needs several cuts a year."
text[number++] = "Stand tubs or pots of plants underneath your hanging baskets so they benefit from the water dripping from above."

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