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UPS AND DOWNS

The essence of the South Downs has been incorporated into this garden cradled in the folds of its undulating landscape, with the untamed wild beyond the garden’s shelter-belt of hedging and trees inspiring the romantic hillside planting.

Garden designer Nigel Philips has emulated and augmented the Downs’ natural flora with a loose planting of grasses, mounds and drifts of perennial flowers and shrubs in heightened tones of nature’s more

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