Who brought the first gnome to England will probably never be proven, but the first to record using the figures in his garden was Charles Isham at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire who by the 1870s had a series of gnome tableaux in among his giant rock garden.

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But the Australian rock band Savage Garden didn't have it so easy.

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There's even a rock in the garden Fenimore Cooper is supposed to have stubbed his toe on during a garden party in 1842.

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The concert will be the first rock gig at the Covent Garden venue, which is home to the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet.

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Enthusiasm was such that, in the late 60s, one of London's top rock venues, in Covent Garden, was called Middle Earth, after Tolkien's imaginary world.

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Lin's presence meant a Garden packed with celebrities such as Ben Stiller, the Rock and Giants stars Justin Tuck and Brandon Jacobs.

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Weisbrich lives in Round Rock, Texas, and she's a renter who insists on having a garden plot.

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