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Pocket -sized PERFECTION

Take a married couple who retire to the seaside – one a passionate plantswoman and the other a self-confessed doer – and the upshot is a most delightful garden, just three streets away from the beach. Inevitably, at a similar size to a badminton court, it is a garden that invites every cliché in the book – ‘small is beautiful’ or ‘beautiful things come in small packages’, to name a few – but this is one instance when the hype is right.

It was in 2012 that Lyn and Peter moved to Deal from London, bringing a vanload of plants from their previous home. ‘The garden had been created in a piecemeal fashion as our son grew up

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