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“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”
Shakespeare

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Primula ‘Inverewe’

hen I was a child, we used to have a tin of boiled sweets in the car glove box: they were dusted with icing sugar › I am pretty sure that many of you will know exactly what I am talking about. These were dished out at moments of extreme

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