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URBAN OASIS

IT had been Maxine Brady’s long held dream to own a beautiful sunny garden that she and her dog, Teddy, could enjoy all summer long. When she viewed her terraced house in Brighton, its key attraction was the south-facing plot. ‘The garden had been left to overgrow,’ Maxine says. ‘There was a climbing weed that was so big and heavy it had pulled the fences down and grown over the back door,

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