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* Hyacinths that have finished flowering indoors can be planted outside with a handful of bonemeal to build them up. They sometimes take a season to recover but then naturalise well, with smaller, but more easily managed heads of flower.
What to see
* The Alde Valley Spring Festival opens today with a brilliant series of exhibitions, walks, suppers and films centred on White House Farm, Great Glemham, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1LS. The programme runs to 19 May with walks on Wednesday afternoons and farm suppers on Thursday evenings. The exhibition, with new works by Maggi Hambling, is open Tues-Sun. Go to aldevalley springfestival.co.uk
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