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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Hannah Stephenson

How to get the Wimbledon look in your garden

Flowers at Wimbledon (Alamy/PA) -

Every summer, the grounds at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club are awash with blooms, from the 5,000 hydrangeas throughout the grounds to more than 12,000 petunias in shades of blue and white used in more than 200 hanging baskets and 1,700 troughs around the show courts.

A myriad of scented roses cover the iconic Rose Arch, while birds nest in the Boston ivy scaling the walls at the front of the Centre Court and in the living walls containing 15 different plants, including heucheras, hebes, euonymus and ivy, either side of the screen of No 1 Court.

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