Potted summary: It's time to take cuttings of your favourite plants

There have been some good things about this summer. Yes. Really. One of them is that I haven't once had to stagger up the bank with a watering can to water the big pots of pelargoniums. It's a steep bank and the can, a French one, takes more than the standard two-gallon English kind. That's a useful trait once you've arrived at your destination, but difficult to manage while you're climbing the kind of slopes on which we garden.






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