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Planting a memory

Earlier this year, Harkness Roses bred and launched a rose to) planted in the gardens at Windsor Castle, a gift from RHS president Keith Weed. Double flowered and deep pink with white markings, for every Duke of Edinburgh Rose sold, ÂŁ2.50 goes to The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Living Legacy Fund, which seeks to raise enough money so that a million young people can take part in the award scheme that was founded by the Duke in 1956.

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