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Cotoneasters are the super plant of 2021, so how do you grow them?
A new RHS science paper found that Cotoneaster franchetii is the latest ‘super plant’ to help boost the environment and improve human health
18 February 2021 • 9:34am
Cotoneaster is so common that it can easily be overlooked, but recent research suggests it has more benefits than expected
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Thanks to findings from a recent Royal Horticultural Society study,
Cotoneaster franchetii is being hailed as the latest super plant of 2021.
While investigating the effectiveness of hedges as air pollution barriers, researchers discovered that in traffic hot-spots, cotoneasters (a genus of flowering plants in the rose family)