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The head of gardens and parks at the National Trust on developing climate-resilient gardens and worrying less about our choices I spent time in the garden with my mum when I was young, but I drifted a

The success of a garden depends on the quality of its garden team. Charles Quest-Ritson finds three young horticulturists destined for greatness

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Earliest garden memory Gardening with my grandfather, who loved his pelargoniums. I can smell them now. First plant love Growing up in the Hampshire countryside, I was captivated early on by ancient a

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a

Monika Barry, head gardener at the National Trust’s Ham House and Garden in Richmond, talks autumn colours and the joy of an allotment