Think Outside the Post-War Box ; Continuing Our Series On Matching Plants to Your Home: How to Glam Up the Plainest House
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Although Britain can boast a great gardening heritage, the post- war years were not our finest hour. After decades that had seen gardens blossom under the Victorians and Edwardians, the 1940s and 1950s were a time of frugality.
Houses became more modest, boxy affairs, while the rising cost of labour and materials meant gardens became watered-down versions of an elegant Edwardian past.See the full content of this document
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Think Outside the Post-War Box ; Continuing Our Series On Matching Plants to Your Home: How to Glam Up the Plainest House
For that reason, there is no specific style of landscaping or planting associated with homes built between the late 1940s and the end of the 1970s. Instead, the...
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