Country Life

It’s a stake out

LIVING in the high Cots-wolds lets you experience the full force of every season and, sometimes, we get all four in one day in my garden. When winter bites, my thoughts turn to my glorious dahlias. I’ll soon be ordering more varieties from Rose Cottage Plants, despite the fact that there are already 140 tucked up under the greenhouse bench, packed together under a layer of protective compost. The plants are guarded by a frost-breaking

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