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27th May 2025

After the Chelsea Flower Show last week, our thoughts turn to gardening and gardeners. Valerie Finnis (1924-2006) was a horticulturalist and photographer who gardened with and in style, as this photograph (1993, NPG) shows. She became Lady Montagu Douglas Scott when she married David Scott (1887-1986), and within one hour of the wedding, they were weeding their garden.
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