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  • The English Garden

    Sensory DELIGHT

    Nov 06, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS SARAH GILES
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    If you need some inspiration to keep your garden looking good right through the colder months, a visit to the Winter Garden at Wakehurst in West Sussex is an absolute must. Also known as Kew’s ‘Wild Botanic Garden’, Wakehurst is owned by the National Trust, but is used and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. As well as being the home of the Millennium Seed Bank, which houses and protects seed from the world’s most threatened and useful wild plants, it’s a lovely place to visit, and the Winter Garden, which opened in January this year and is now maturing nicely, has been designed using plants and planting ideas that make the most of winter scent and

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