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I think it’s fair to say that plants and gardening have saved my life”

Finalists in our Gardens of the Year competition often share stories of how they transformed unkempt, unloved or just plain uninspiring gardens, creating beautiful and personal havens in their place. But it’s not often that we meet an entrant who

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