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    May 13, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
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    CLIVE NICHOLS

    It is probably better not to calculate the miles of hedging at Rodmarton Manor, near Cirencester. Nor, for that matter, the varied topiary animating the borders and vistas that define this Arts & Crafts garden. It is certainly not a task that owner John Biddulph particularly wants to undertake any time soon. “I dread to think how much there is,” he says. “I think I’d be rather put off.”

    Clipping the box, beech and yew is one of the key tasks in this garden, and takes around three months to complete. In a normal year, work begins with the box in July and ends with the

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