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    Jun 16, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS LOUISE CURLEY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    KAT WEATHERILL

    Gardens can be places of tranquillity: somewhere to mindfully potter, escape the strains of modern life and connect with nature. And, in some cases, they can be the inspiration to start a business. When Susan Dobson set up The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company in 2014 she’d been gardening the one-acre patch around her home near the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton for over 20 years. “I’d always taken flowers into the house, then I heard about Flowers from the Farm which was set up by Gill Hodgson to promote British cut flower growers, and it sowed a seed in my mind that I could become

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