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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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