Going home to Kew: after living abroad, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens fulfills a boyhood ambition

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Botanist Ghillean Prance has worked and lived at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, near London since 1988. The garden of his house is patterned after British gardens and is the source of kitchen supplies and meal ingredients, which his wife, Anne, processes and prepares herself.

Management, Botanists, Botanical gardens, Homes and haunts, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Prance, Ghillean

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All along the garden path

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Thomas Reinhardt and his partners designed a Long Island garden and successfully captured the looks of the natural landscape. A walk through the garden path reveals clusters of greenery each mimicking the feel of either a shoreline, a marshland or an enchanted forest.

Environmental aspects, Gardening, Gardens

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His and hers in the Hamptons

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The husband and wife team of William and Erika Shank work their own gardens at their home in Amagansett, NY. Both are active landscape gardeners and are members of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

Behavior, Landscape gardening, Gardeners

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