Like most people, I have a garden full of plants given to me by friends and neighbours. They are all very special. Some years ago I went on an outing to the home of the late Laurel Phillips, a life-member of our local garden club at Blackheath,
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WHAT IS A SCONE? According to the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins, scone derives from the Dutch schoonbrood – schoon meaning bright, white or beautiful and brood meaning bread, hence; ‘fine white bread’. The name made its way into Scottish English and did not become widespread in
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