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Conifers

These trees usually stay green all year round. Perfect for a happy garden in all seasons! Not to mention easy-to-light fire starters in winter…

Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree

The monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana

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Plants that trigger allergy and those that don't

Allergic to pollen? Types of plants to avoid, and what to replace them with

Special reports
beautiful winter garden

5 keys for a beautiful winter garden

Special reports
Topiary in the form of low spiraling hedges, properly refreshed

Refresh your topiary shrubs at the end of summer

Gardening
pruning thuja

Reducing thuja, a battered look for a year, before bursting back!

Trees and shrubs
Small dwarf conifers

Small conifers and dwarf conifers for pots, containers and small gardens

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mixed hedge

12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous

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Juniper

Juniperus, a superb conifer

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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Chamaecyparis, the Lawson false cypress

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Thuja

Thuja, a true hedge conifer

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four season hedge

Four-seasons hedge, every season sees it as beautiful as ever

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Juniper

Juniper, a very ornamental shrub

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Juniper berries on the branch, blueish color

Juniper berries: traditional uses, kitchen forms and cautions

Health
Stone pine tree seen from below

Stone pine, a majestic conifer

Trees and shrubs
Yew

Yew, an evergreen hedge and topiary tree

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A balcony in winter overloaded with green ivy and red and white cyclamen flowers.

A green balcony, even in winter

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Cypress alleyway

Cypress tree, a superb conifer

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Pine bark mulch

Maritime pine bark, an excellent acidic mulch

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Disease killing cypress trees

Cypress canker

Treating diseases and pests
Tall and mature cedar tree

Cedar tree, a magnificent conifer

Trees and shrubs
Leyland cypress shaped into squares in a parc

Leyland cypress, the king of hedges

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