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    Jul 23, 2020 3 minutes

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    The sweet taste of failure

    Monty’s reflections about turning his hand to film making really resonated with me (, June issue). I was always a ‘dreamer’ when it came to gardening – too worried about not getting it right to even start properly. Needless to say, this is something that features in other parts of my life. However, his comment about ‘failing better’ is a wonderful answer. What I am learning about gardening is that the experimenting, playing, failing

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