Cloche encounters
FOR gardeners who, for years, have been searching—most probably in vain—to buy a traditional Victorian-style cast-iron cloche, there is some excellent news. The cloches are once again being made, at a workshop near Bath, and they are even better than the originals.
The Victorian cloche is the acme of cloches —sturdy, beautiful and extremely practical at protecting plants from those troublesome early frosts. There is nothing to beat them, but they have been out of production for decades, apart from a brief moment in the 1990s.
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