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Waterperry Gardens

Just outside Oxford, Waterperry Gardens looks like any other pretty garden open to the public. What it represents, however, is something very special. Begun as a teaching garden by pioneer Beatrix Havergal, it trained female gardeners at a time when men dominated the business, and those that

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