Country Life

No mucking about

WHEN Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld set up The Land Gardeners in 2012, growing and selling cut flowers, they based themselves in the old walled garden at Mrs Elworthy’s home at Wardington Manor in Oxfordshire. It had been used as a working yard for many years, so the soil was heavily compacted. Using old photographs, they re-created the old beds and, each year, added home-produced and well-rotted

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