He asked a gardener who was sitting in the square smoking a cigarette where he could find a hardware store.

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The Constant Gardener and The English Patient were both brilliant films, and Fiennes was brilliant in both roles.

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Mr Hoare was identified as the UK's oldest active gardener by retailer Furniture Village which led a hunt for an expert to respond to the nation's horticultural questions.

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At a weapons dump in the Rajasthan desert in India, a gardener was sacked to save money.

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By the time we reached the exit which was blocked by two guards and a gardener we had no instinct left.

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The gardener had pointed to a thick bamboo stem and explained that if a pebble was thrown at it and it hit the trunk slightly off-centre, it would bounce off and make hardly any sound.

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Gardener and tutor Alys Fowler said no previous professional gardening experience was necessary as, for her, the ideal volunteers would be office workers.

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