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A blueprint for Sissinghurst IN 1925, Sissinghurst Castle ...

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The finest bay trees I know are the legendary 150-year-old specimens that line the gracious balustraded South Terrace at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland. The trees were already at least 50 years old

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu