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    This week it’s: The French connection

    Jul 06, 2021 5 minutes

    NEXT Wednesday (14 July) is Bastille Day, or the National Day of France, commemorating the Storming of the Bastille in Paris in 1789 – the turning point of the French Revolution. To mark this, I thought we could look at some of the gardening connections to France.

    Whether you’re a Francophile like me, or not particularly fussed about the country and its people, you can’t dispute the fact that France has had a huge impact on gardening over the centuries.

    ■ Roses are an important part of French gardening history – and none more so than the beautiful wild rose, Rosa gallica, named by the Romans after the area of Gaul that they occupied (much of which is modern-day France).

    Latour-Marliac’s waterlilies

    BORY Latour-Marliac (1830-1911) was

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