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How to make a garden good enough for Country Life from scratch

Within only 14 years, seven acres of featureless grass around Charlton Farm in Wiltshire have been transformed into a garden full of incident and charm, writes Caroline Donald Editor’s note: the following article contains references to suicide If ever there were a blank canvas, it was the landscape around Charlton Farm in north Wiltshire that […]

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Ticks for a low-water plant mix in the garden | In Fiona’s Garden | The Land

The Australian Plants Society NSW has a brilliant website (austplants.com.au), easy to navigate, beautifully illustrated and with links to gardens and reserves to visit, plants and seeds to buy, a native plants database (updated weekly) and many others. Membership (one year $56, concession $48) includes the national newsletter Australian Plants, published quarterly. Email [email protected] Click […]

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