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England: Lottery cash to restore Parker Bowles garden21 January 2009ENFIELD, England -- As reported by This is London: "A garden designed by one of the greatest horticulturists of the 19th and 20th centuries is to be restored thanks to a lottery grant. "The Heritage Lottery Fund has given £487,500 towards the £725,000 transformation of the gardens designed by Edward Augustus Bowles at his home, Myddelton House, in Enfield. "Mr Bowles's great-great-nephew, Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles - the former husband of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - was set to start the work on the Bull's Cross site today. "The gardens once attracted visitors from around the world because Edward Bowles succeeded in growing rare and difficult plants despite poor soil..." |