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Your best-ever hanging baskets

Creatively planted baskets are colourful, tactile pieces of living art, ideal for brightening up any garden. Suspended at eye (and nose) level, they put on a display that’s easily admired and they’re particularly valuable where space is tight, as they don’t take up any ground space.

Only certain plants work well in baskets though – they need to

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