The English Garden

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Describe an early encounter with plants that played a part in setting you on your course.

Every photograph of me as a child was taken in a garden. The earliest is one of me eating soil and gravel out of an 1980s concrete garden urn, then sitting on the lions at RHS Wisley, then harvesting raspberries in

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