Patience pays off Don't be put off buying plants just because they are a mere frill of leaves in a plastic pot: imagine how they will look in the summer, homes and property

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: PATTIE BARRON | Copyright information

THIS time will be different. This time, when you join the spring stampede to the garden centre, you will not be seduced by the first flamboyant rhododendron that waves an outrageous ice-pink ruffled bloom in your direction. As if! The chances of most of us sticking to plan when we hit the garden centre are as likely as snowdrops blooming in July. But there are many plants on sale that aren't in flower - especially the herbaceous perennials - that could be planted now to flower spectacularly i...

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