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    This week it’s: Plants on a theme of ‘castles’

    Jan 14, 2020 3 minutes

    CASTLES may be a bit of a random subject to cover in a gardening magazine, but you’d be surprised by the number of links there are between plants, gardening and castles. Apart from the fact that some of our finest gardens are set around castles (my favourite garden is at Powis Castle, on the Welsh border), there are around 60 plants listed in the that have ‘castle’ in their name and are currently being sold. It also lists about 300 plants with ‘castle’ in their names that were once

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