The UK horticulture industry is facing a skills crisis - but Great Dixter aims to change...

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    Fergus Garrett, head gardener of Great Dixter, the centuries-old manor house in East Sussex, is standing in front of a class of secondary-school children. "I was held at gunpoint several times when looking for tulips in Eastern Turkey. There was an internal conflict going on, but that didn't get in the way," he tells them.

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