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A Growing Concern: glorious festive greenery with Butter Wakefield

Though your flowerbeds may be hibernating, it doesn’t mean you have to forgo blooms and bunches in December. Here, the garden designer, whose bountifully bedecked home in west London is a hymn to the holiday season, talks us through her pointers for winter plant-life – and all without a poinsettia or holly sprig in sight

Gardens

words: Grace McCloud
photography: Ellen Hancock
production: Harry Cave

A Growing Concern: glorious festive greenery with Butter Wakefield