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Sedum tips

O pleased to see this article ‘Helpful hylotelephiums’ (, 26 September), as a I think these are fab, easy hardworking garden plants that were often so undervalued. Maybe the name change and growing interest in gardening for wildlife has helped their popularity. I’m very lucky to have a large garden and as such propagate lots of my own plants to try to give the garden scale. ‘Sedum’ have been a long favourite, which I always propagate in jars of water from all the stems I remove when

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