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When one puts down the research tools and goes hell for leisure; here is the
implement of choice; a good sturdy garden fork. One starts with window
boxes, graduates to a windy fourth floor roof terrace, and then (after years
of waiting) an allotment. This is a consuming passion: one's first piece of
land. Vegetables and flowers for the house and a ready stock of experts in
the neighbouring plots to teach me how.
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And then there is ambition. It is absurd to go from window boxes to a vegetable garden to 17 acres in just three years; but that is what has happened. And I’m delighted to be learning how to garden and design on such a grand scale. Terrified? Mais bien sûr!
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