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    Addressing nature’s issues

    Jul 15, 2021 2 minutes

    Bodnant Garden

    odnant, as HRH the Prince of Wales says in his introduction, “is one of Wales’s greatest treasures”. Iona McLaren, whose forbear Henry Pochin bought the 2,000-acre estate (for £62,000 in 1874), and whose family home it remains, has done wonderful justice to the variety of people (and plants) who have created and maintain, with the National Trust, 80 acres of gardens,

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