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GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Using thrillers, fillers and spillers in containers

For the tried, tested and true, the solution to an empty urn is three or four geraniums with a spike in the centre. 

The combo has worked for decades, and it will work again.  

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Geraniums, more appropriately called pelargoniums, for fear they get confused with perennial geraniums, have been a staple in flower gardens as long as I can remember. Their tennis-ball-sized blooms in red, salmon, pink or white are borne on tidy plants growing to about 50 centimetres in height.   

Success with geraniums depends on the gardener who will plant them in full sun and give them plenty of fertilizer. I recommend using granular slow-release plant food........

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