Abutilon or Chinese lanterns are many different colors and so easy to look after. They can be cut back hard and will re-flower quickly. There is a Flea Beatle which seems to feast on the leaves – so we have been spraying with some oil and also digging up around roots – sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. Poppies are sublime – we just threw a packet of seeds out and they grew – and keep doing that every year!















