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The supposedly sedate world of horticulture is full of eccentrics.
If gnome-filled flower-beds, a claustrophobia of capricious topiary or a Disney-like display of dubiously cute, oversized mutants are your idea of outdoor eccentricity, then, to quote the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan (tell me, is that an eccentric name?) is a fellow ‘inexorably drawn towards eccentric personalities’. Compared with his, my own acquaintance with
