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  • The English Garden

    PASSION & Precision

    Jul 17, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS TAMSIN WESTHORPE
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    THERE AREN’T MANY COUPLES LIKE ROB and Diane Cole, who can claim to be completely equal partners when it comes to decision making in the garden. They met by chance on a beach in Majorca in 1986 and realised they were a match made in horticultural heaven. The result of their relationship has been the creation of one of the most immaculate gardens you’ll ever have the pleasure to visit: Meadow Farm Garden in Worcestershire.

    The Coles’ one-acre garden, which is part of a larger three-acre site, is not the result of a series of happy accidents; it has been meticulously planned to the point where even the lawns are designed as parallel curves at

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