Beyond string theory: keeping flowers growing straight and true

I'm not convinced that normal people know quite how much string goes into gardening. String – which, together with nails and weird little wire inventions – holds a plant in exactly the place you want it to be, rather than where it fancies growing. You adore the delicious bounty of that blossoming flowerbed? You wouldn't know to look at it, but it's held up by serried ranks of Great Egg Race-style structures, carefully constructed to blend into invisibility from a distance.






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