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On the south-western edge of St Albans, winding paths lead into a heart-warming garden that embraces autumn flowers and family memories. The borders are as vibrant and colourful as most gardens’ in mi

IF your garden is anything like mine, most of the borders and pots have peaked by this time, shifting from full-on florals to fading foliage. There are a few late-to-the-party dahlias, the cosmos are

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We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best

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