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The Land Gardeners Cut Flowers

by Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld Thames & Hudson, £39.95

It is difficult not to love abundant country house gardens and fulsome floral arrangements. Throw in a potting shed, cut-flower room and a dose of Constance Spry and Willow Pattern and you soon have a coffee-table centrepiece.

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