A blast from the past
Nov 10, 2021
2 minutes
Tom Parker Bowles
JUST outside a rambling farmhouse, in the grounds of a prep school in deepest north Oxford, there was a plant. No surprises there, I hear you cry, there were probably quite a few. Yet, this one—with its tall, crinkly, dock-like leaves—held rather more fascination than your average rose. Because hidden below the thrusting foliage was a root of uncommon power, one which
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