"All of my gardening coats have been my husband's cast-offs. He is sufficiently bigger than me for the coats to be roomy and snug. They all have the same faint smell of wet dog which I find strangely comforting and they are all well endowed with pockets. Why do tailors think that men need more pockets than women? Surely it should be the other way round."
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Anna Pavord
(born 20 September 1940) is a British gardener, garden writer, journalist, and television presenter. From 1993 to 2008 she was an associate editor of Gardens Illustrated. Her book The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (, 1999) was a .
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