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There are many gardeners who have influenced the way we garden. Designers, gardeners, plant breeders and explorers have all added to our knowledge and skill, or introduced plants and ideas that our gardening would be the poorer without.
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The Reservoir garden in spring
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| Beth Chatto
There are gardeners whose ideas and influence extends far beyond their personal fame. One such gardener is Beth Chatto, who began her garden, and then nursery, in one of the driest areas of Britain, East Anglia, over 35 years ago. Faced with making a new garden on a steep, dry, gravel, and sun-baked bank above a ditch in rural Essex, most of us would despair. Today beautiful borders, Mediterranean areas, water and bog gardens belie those beginnings ... here | |
