"Even the canny invader William the Conqueror can be thought to have contributed to the total of our plant list. When he came to build what we now know as the s, he preferred use material with which he was already acquainted rather than stone from unknown English quarries, so the walls of castles like and were built from stone imported from the . Incidental to its main purpose, the stone itself carried the seeds of a double invasion — seeds of two plants we think of as being most quintessentially English. The first was the , and the second was . Both were seen blooming on the stone walls of in France, so the pretty little delicate pink which is used in the breeding of nearly all of our border pinks is the result of ."
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Maggie Campbell-Culver
is a garden and plant historian, gardener, landscaper, lecturer, and . In the 1990s she managed the garden and landscape restoration of 's . In 2001 Campbell-Culver was elected a Fellow of The .
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