The English Garden

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What did you hope to achieve with this book?

I wanted to highlight the unique meadows of England and our wildflower inheritance. I wanted to show that our native wildflowers, which have exotic and often charming names like creeping ladies’ tresses and snake’s head fritillary, are irreplaceable and valuable forms of life

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