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“I founded a garden festival to raise funds for our local hospital”

It’s a biennial event with 28 gardens opening their gates to visitors over two weekends in early July. The gardens are dotted throughout the islands – there’s an exquisite seaside gravel garden in South Ronaldsay, a stream-side garden in Finstown, a walled garden near to the Neolithic village of Skara Brae… The gardens show what can

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