We all want something a little bit different in our gardens, and home-grown standards give you just that. Training plants on a single stem with a mop head of foliage is a tradition that goes back centuries and has long been a feature of formal gardens. By training your own, you'll be able to experiment with a wide range of plants that you can find at your local garden centre. Buying standard plants can be expensive, so growing your own saves money and, best of all, means you can afford more than one, A matching pair will set off a doorway, pathway or garden gate, More impressive still, try a row or series of standards in the garden. Training a plant up into a standard is simple enough if you have a bit of patience and there is great satisfaction to be had from having done it yourself.
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