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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Davies

RHS garden with burnt-out cottage ‘shows Ukraine’s spirit cannot be erased’

What Does Not Burn, the garden by landscape designers Victoria and Oleksiy Manoylo.
What Does Not Burn, the garden by landscape designers Victoria and Oleksiy Manoylo, will be on display at the RHS Hampton Court garden festival. Photograph: RHS

A burnt-out cottage decorated with embroidered cloths and surrounded by swaying barley, designed by a Ukrainian couple unable to return to their war-ravaged village, is set to be one of the unexpected highlights of the RHS’s largest flower show.

Victoria and Oleksiy Manoylo, landscape designers who were at a garden festival in Milan, Italy, when Russian troops invaded their village near Bucha and destroyed their home, have poured their trauma and defiance into the garden, which will feature at the RHS Hampton Court Palace garden festival next month.

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