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Merton College has varied hard-working gardens of herbaceous beds, bulb areas and exotic bedding to produce year-round colour. The college was founded in 1264 and evidence suggests its 6.5-acre surrounds have been in cultivation ever since. Unsurpris
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Secrets Shared
‘She put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key, and found it fitted the keyhole… she held back the shining curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly. Then she slipped through it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with ex
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Florist’s Friend
Heard of the expression ‘You can’t please all of the people all of the time’? When it comes to plants, Sarah Hyde suspects that alstroemeria might just manage it. One of the third generation of the family running H. W. Hyde and Sons, a plant nursery

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