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A painterly palette

first encountered the Benton irises about ten years ago when visiting the iris fields of Woottens of Wenhaston in Suffolk. At the time I had just moved to Somerset and had a south-facing, free-draining slope to experiment with so, in the spirit of getting-to-know, I chose 56 of the hundreds of bearded iris that fluttered in the fields and lined

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