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MY GARDEN LIFE

Q Where did your passion for gardening originate?

In my mid twenties I married [the acclaimed garden designer] Tom Stuart-Smith and we began creating a garden together around our home ‘The Barn’ in Hertfordshire. I was new to gardening at that stage. I loved beautiful plants but regarded tasks like weeding as a bit of a chore. That changed a few years later when I started growing herbs

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