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On your fruit & veg plot

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden… plus her diary for the week!

Marian Boswall on how the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards

Charles Quest-Ritson talks to Trevor White, whose Norfolk rose nursery is sought out by enthusiasts for the quality and variety of its stock

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants