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Inside the National Trust’s secret nursery

Charles Quest-Ritson was invited in to the National Trust’s top-secret plant nursery. Here’s what he discovered.

Back in August, I visited a secret plant nursery — so secret, indeed, that even the people who acquire its plants do not know where it is based. It belongs to the National Trust and lies somewhere in the West Country. Its purpose is to rescue and propagate the hundreds of rare plants that exist in Trust gardens.

Why is this important? Sometime in the…

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