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Article: Harvesting at the ocean's edge.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2003
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Byline: PATTIE BARRON
THE south-westerlies are something terrible, marauding deer ate the camellias and the garden is occasionally submerged by the encroaching sea.
But then you'd expect there to be a downside or three in such an idyllic location as Susan Campbell's weekend retreat.
Her beachside garden, which wraps around the longstanding family home - in turn it has been a smuggler's cottage, farm and pub - is situated precisely where the New Forest meets the sea.
Compensations for the tricky gardening conditions are many, and include, aside from the sensational sea view across the Solent to the Isle of Wight, wild orchids, which ...