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    The Heat Is On

    Jun 15, 2022 4 minutes
    WORDS CLARE FOGGETT
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    JOE WAINWRIGHT

    Cholmondeley Castle’s head gardener Barry Grain first drove his spade into the ground that would become two colourful new borders in 2017. Christened ‘the Lavinia Walk’, the borders honour Lady Lavinia, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, who died in 2015 aged 94. She came to the turreted sandstone castle in 1949 with her husband, the 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and began transforming the grounds around it into a garden of great romance. Barry, who came here in 2013, warmly remembers the two years he spent working alongside her, out in the garden or talking things over in the library. Now he discusses

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