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gardening

Island Life - August/September 2010
was no sense

and that is very exciting. So that is a

of design.

favourite.

“I looked at

“But if I had a knife at my throat, I

it and thought

would say the King Protea. In my Kew

if the garden

days the South African collection there

had been here

had dwindled to almost nothing, and I

15 years before

was responsible for the redevelopment

I arrived I

of the South African collections. I had

decided it was

been to South Africa, come back with

a site we could

the seeds, and one of the first things I

do a lot with.”

had great success with was King Protea.

Surely a man

“I had brought these seeds back in

who oversees

a brown envelope’ sewn them and

this Isl