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Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, writer and former chair of Gardeners' Question Time

THERE IS A distinct sound that every seasoned caravanner knows. It isn’t the gentle hum of the fridge or the whistle of the old camping kettle boiling. It is the jarring groan and screech of a dry, st

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