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    New life for your garden

    Aug 20, 2020 4 minutes
    “This is not a room you’re wanting to redecorate – it is a living, changing scenario, moving from season to season”

    We have lived at Glebe Cottage for more than 40 years and though we started from scratch and have been working at it ever since, there are parts of the garden that have passed their peak and need rejuvenation. An established garden need not be a tired garden, but we gardeners need to be aware that left to its own devices and with no attempt to renew, refresh or reinvigorate, our plots will become samey and a shadow of their former selves.

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