On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:02:54 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:

It will be interesting to see if these survivors do as well as this
year's new plants.

More likely the it's the wet that will have set them back.

It never did freeze here, all winter. The result is an early influx of
aphids and green caterpillars...



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Gardening in Lower Normandy