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A pub and prison host plant collections

A pub and a prison are the first of their kind to be awarded National Plant Collection status by horticultural conservation charity Plant Heritage. The White Hart, a popular village pub in Bitton, Gloucestershire, and HMP Eastwood Park, a prison and young offender institution for women located north of Bristol, hold prize collections of Crocosmia cvs. and Tulbaghia respectively.

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