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Love the world of the garden

When editor, author, broadcaster, part-time farmer and biophile Lynda Hallinan was approached by her publishers to write a book about the therapeutic side of gardening, she was initially unsure whether that was her gig.

She’s never been a “wellness kind of gardener,’’ she says. Put simply, she just likes to smell the roses and have a

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