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High and Mighty
'I must say it has been rather amazing here this week… the house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes… and lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers, butterflies and ap
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People to Meet
The deputy director and head of science at Oxford Botanic Garden on his journey deep into the rainforest to propagate Rafflesia I’ve always been fascinated by plants. I have a scientific mind and want to understand how things work. When I was little,
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Welcome
Herbaceous or mixed, large or small, curving or straight: almost every garden involves a border of some sort. “A strip of ground along the edge of a lawn or path for planting” is the dull-sounding dictionary definition of a border, but anyone who has