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The recent episode of Radio 4’s obituaries programme, Last Words, included a tribute to Susan Campbell, the artist, illustrator, author and authority on kitchen gardens, who has died aged 92.

Susan Campbell, who has died aged 92, was in a long and varied career an artist and illustrator, a food writer and Britain’s leading expert on walled kitchen gardens, 700 of which she visited in the UK and abroad.

It is the mark of a culture belatedly prepared to acknowledge that life has an ending