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Beth Chatto was a garden pioneer. Her influential approach transformed the way we think about choosing plants for the conditions in our gardens as well as for the climate we live in. In 1960 she and her husband Andrew took on an overgrown wasteland of brambles, parched sandy gravel and boggy ditches at Elmstead Market in northeast Essex, transforming it with plants that would naturally thrive in different conditions: right plant, right place. Working with nature, a unique garden was created.

Beth was, by

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