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As King Charles prepares another ratings-busting TV Christmas speech, he has reason to be grateful to one particular organisation for helping create the time-honoured tradition, now in its 91st year.

East Lambrook Manor, a beautiful, Grade II* listed medieval Somerset hall house near South Petherton, has come to the market along with its…

If you want another show of blooms, you need to stop the plant in its tracks

G. gracilis and G. elwesii.” Hynes, who moved to Cherubeer 30 years ago, grew snowdrops in her previous Buckinghamshire garden having been given three named varieties by the late Gwladys Tonge, who was Hardy Plant Society chairman from 1987 to 1990. Those three originals, ‘Scharlockii’, ‘Viridapice’ and ‘Atkinsii’, moved to Devon and were soon joined by ‘Magnet’, ‘Colossus’ and ‘S. Arnott’. “These big and bold varieties make large clumps without self-seeding,” Hy...