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How to get your garden blooming in time for summer – in just two hours

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@rosie_ida_flowers on Instagram for inspiration. Carolyn Dunster has recently written a stunning book – Cut & Dry: The Modern Guide to Dried Flowers from Growing to Styling (Laurence King, £17.99) – that is also well worth a look.A post shared by Rosie Ida Flowers (@rosie_ida_flowers)Annuals such as clary sage, briza, nigella and atriplex are perfect plants for beginners and can be sown direct into the soil from March.

It’s best to buy these seeds early before they sell out: cast your eye over the Chiltern Seeds website for lots of blooms that will give colour for months (chilternseeds.co.uk; search for “flowers for drying”).It is very disheartening when precious vegetables are ravaged by pests or fail to thrive after all your hard work nurturing them.

Crop rotation is the traditional method of preventing a build-up of crop-specific pests and diseases from year to year, so if you follow this method it should help to reduce problems.

It also organises crops according to their cultivation needs. For details, visit rhs.org.uk and search “vegetable crop rotation”.

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