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    Letters to Wendy

    Feb 15, 2022 3 minutes

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    I WANTED to express my great sympathy to you all for the sudden loss of your very long term colleague Peter Seabrook at “86 years young”. (I am sure he was double digging this winter putting us all to shame with his youthful energy!)

    He was clearly a person of so much vitality, as well as vast experience and horticultural knowledge, that it was a shock for us all. I am sure that he will be greatly missed by yourselves as well as readers and the wider gardening community.

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