Pictured here are the trial gardens at Universite Laval in the Jardin botanique Roger-Van den Hende in Quebec City.
It's just one of the places around the world in which new annual plants are grown an evaluated.
It's great to be able to see 10 different varieties of a certain plant growing side by side.
Here are just a few of the plants which thrilled me.
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