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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Hampton Court Palace flower show to highlight plight of refugees

Conceptual garden featuring barbed wire fence and items collected from beaches of Greek islands will be exhibited at event Under grey skies and spitting rain, a group of teenage refugees are helping to set up a garden with dying trees, a moat, barbed wire and a razor-topped wire link fence, and featuring a wildflower meadow. The five Eritreans and one Afghan were volunteers on one of the more unusual “conceptual gardens” for next week’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Hampton Court Palace flower show, which receives 130,000 visitors annually. Continue reading...


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