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WILD PROSPECTS

Adam Hunt and Lulu Urquhart of Urquhart & Hunt won Best in Show and Gold at last year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and were named Homes & Gardens’ Garden Designer of the Year 2022. This month, Adam talks about the importance of designing a garden with nature at the forefront.

WE all know that gardens are good for nature – or at least they can be, when gardened with wildlife in mind – yet many of the birds, insects and mammals arriving in our gardens are only there because of a wider background of suitable habitat surrounding our homes, and are often visitors to our little patch of land rather than inhabitants. This is not

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