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SECOND SCHOOL

‘Learning about horticulture is as important as learning the alphabet’

t’s one of those four-season days. Emma Love is showing me around Kew Gardens and we’ve sat basking in sun, dashed between buildings as the skies opened, and been buffeted by high winds. As another round of rain hammers down, we hide in the backstage nursery where room upon room is packed with row upon row of plants, from orchids

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