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    SPRINGTIME ELEGANCE

    Mar 03, 2022 4 minutes
    Words and photographs Leigh Clapp

    Rosemary Alexander has been inspiring and educating gardeners for nearly 40 years through the renowned English Gardening School, with alumni including horticultural luminaries such as Cleve West, Jo Thompson and Rachel de Thame. So it is no surprise to discover that the beautiful garden of her home, Sandhill Farm House in West Sussex, exemplifies her ethos of ‘marrying the practical with the romantic’.

    The first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers, alongside her horticultural career, Rosemary has developed her own home gardens. Before Sandhill, she was the tenant for 11 years at Stoneacre, a 10-acre National Trust property near Maidstone in

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