Advantages: Fantastic display of flowers and good looking foliage.
Disadvantages: Not frost hardy. All parts of the plant are poisonous.

...The plant is relatively unknown to the vast majority of the population, yet it is so magnificent that I cannot understand why. The plant goes under the name of Datura or Brugmansia or simply Angel's Trumpet. It is not frost hardy so needs to be sheltered in winter. The fast growing shrubs produce masses of large trumpet shaped flowers between 10" and 12" long and 3 to 4 inches across, several at a time, and flower over and over again from July to October. Different varieties come in white, pink, yellow, orange, red and purple. They can be purchased at an increasing number of garden centres as ready grown plants - prices range from a pound or so for a seedling a few inches high, to over £10 for a mature specimine a metre high. Seeds are also available - see the Thompson & Morgan catalogue - but are not carried by many stockists.... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable, hardy and loats to choose from
Disadvantages: Some can be vigorous

...I recently did a course where the tutor was crazy about hardy Geraniums or Cranesbills which I thought was rather strange until she gave me some cuttings and I was hooked. There are loads to choose from and they flower for months on end, indeed the little cutting I was given flowered from May until late September and the flowers covered the plant. They come in several shades of pink, blue, mauve and white and many are semi evergreen. Geraniums can be propogated easily by division in spring or autumn and grow in most soils except waterlogged and in sun or light shade. In my opinion some of the most beautiful ones are; Geranium Renardii which is white with maroon-purple veined petals and grows to about 12 inches, or 30 cm, Johnson's Blue which is deep lavender blue and grows to 12 inches, 30 cm and Ann Folkard which is magenta pink... Read review

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Advantages: quite fun.
Disadvantages: hurts your brain.

...1) A boat stops in a dock. It has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is 1 foot apart. The bottom rung is 1 foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in 1 hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water? 2) What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? 3) 2, 12-inch candles are placed on a table. 1 is held at a vertical position in the normal manner. But the other is placed at a 45-degree angle to the table. Both of them burn at the same rate of 2 inches an hour. Which will burn down to the table first? 4) What do you call a man who was born in cardiff, raised in manchester, and died in london? 5) How can you make the following sum correct without changing it: 8 + 8 = 91 6) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 1 Put the appropriate plus or minus signs... Read review

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Advantages: good choice of photo sizes, good prices for next day printing
Disadvantages: no instant printing (at least one hour for most items)

...size and when you want to pick them up. The options for size include all of the standard photograph sizes such as 6x4 inches, 7x5 inches, 8x6 inches, 9x6 inches, 10x8 inches, 12x8 inches etc. Printing can be done in as little as one hour but the prices are cheaper if you order them for the next day. Prices are also cheaper if you print more photos in the same transaction (there's usually a large reduction in price if you get more than 50 photo's printed at once). If you are a member of Jessops Picture House online store you can also upload the pictures from the machine to your account. The prints that I have had done there have been exceptionally good quality with vibrant colours and on good quality paper. The first time I got pictures developed through those machines were about 4 to 5 years ago and the colours on those prints have... Read review

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Advantages: Speed and beauty of 125.