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Natural magic

OBERT WILSON, co-owner of Nelsons natural medicines—of which Rescue Remedy is the most famous—and his wife, Nicky, are a generous couple. Since buying Bonnington House in West Lothian, a few miles from the western reaches of Edinburgh, they have opened up their 100-acre estate to the public in order to share their impressive, site-specific art collection: walk through their woods and you come across works by the likes of Anish Kapoor, Laura Ford and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Over the past 12 years, Jupiter Artland, now run as a charity, has become popular not only with art lovers, but school groups and families keen

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