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    Sep 01, 2021 4 minutes

    LATER this month, the Royal Hospital Chelsea will become a beehive of gardening activity, as landscape designers descend armed with field maples, sedges and late-flowering perennials to create gardens that promise to nurture, restore and give the entire area new hope after the past difficult 18 months.

    This is the first time in the Chelsea Flower Show’s 108-year history that it takes place in September—it started life as the Great Spring Show and has never moved seasons since—but the pensioners and staff at the Royal Hospital Chelsea are looking forward to it with the usual enthusiasm. ‘The Royal Hospital has hosted

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