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High and Mighty
'I must say it has been rather amazing here this week… the house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes… and lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers, butterflies and ap
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Beautiful & Useful
The RHS has issued a warning that box caterpillar populations are higher than usual this year after a mild winter and warm spring. Although box can recover from defoliation, the hunt for box substitutes continues. New to the market is Rhododendron Bl
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Dressed to Impress
Asthall Manor, the impossibly romantic Grade II listed Cotswold property that was formerly home to the Mitford sisters, is adorned with over 150 different varieties of rose. Asthall’s owner, Rosie Pearson, had longed for a ‘house cloaked in roses’ an

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