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I SMILED when I came across the coverline ‘How to bring Nature into your garden’ (). Nature is all around us here, although it sometimes wears a grim visage. We are surrounded by gnarled eucalyptus, black pines, cedars, oaks and elms, but many are falling victim to one of the most severe and prolonged droughts in modern Australian history. The air is full of smoke from bush fires

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