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  • The English Garden

    Confection PERFECTION

    Dec 31, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS JAMES ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    We should all try to avoid the phrase ‘quintessentially English’ since it is massively overused and, to be honest, quite annoying. But if you put me in a half nelson and insisted, then I can think of nowhere else that fits that particular bill quite so snugly as Coton Manor in Northamptonshire. I have known the garden for decades now: I used to live in the county and have been giving occasional talks at their excellent garden school for nearly 20 years.

    It is a garden I have always admired, in particular because Susie Pasley-Tyler is an extraordinarily talented plantswoman and there is always something there to inspire and excite. And now they have won the ultimate

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