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he West Sussex National Trust garden Nymans has unveiled its theatrical new ‘Garden in the Ruins’, created within the remains of the Great Hall, which was lost in a catastrophic fire 75 years ago and has been inaccessible ever since. The garden has been inspired by a former inhabitant of Nymans, the leading 20th-century theatre designer, Oliver Messel, and the plantmanship and artistry of his family, who bought Nymans in the 1890s. The Messels created one of the UK’s most exquisite gardens, and the new garden includes plants which

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