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    People to Meet

    Dec 27, 2023 2 minutes

    Tony Hall

    Kew’s Head of Arboretum & Temperate Collections on how gardens’ winter scent and colour inspired his most recent book

    My arrival at Kew in 1999 was a moment of pure fate. My late wife and I had three children, and when our fourth arrived my wife was desperate to

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