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Perfect plants for your flower patch

When I first moved from London to Perch Hill, a small farm in East Sussex, I had a vague dream of giving up my job as a hospital doctor and staying at home to grow cut flowers. From the age of seven or eight, I’d loved picking flowers and then arranging them for my botaniser father to have on his desk to love too.

Through my twenties I wanted

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