The English Garden

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You worked closely with Beth on the Reservoir Garden. How has it developed in the years since?

When I arrived, it was a low-maintenance garden of mainly shrubs and a few trees, but it was difficult to get the perennials going because the clay used for it was wet and sticky in winter and like concrete in summer. I

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