Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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Call me when it’s dark, otherwise, I am gardening,” says Patricia Elkington when I contact her to arrange an interview. The garden to which Patricia is so attached is in the village of Crawley in Hampshire, and was her childhood home. She and her husband moved in with their children in 1976 and set about gardening with intent once their four sons “had stopped playing football and

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