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Mike Nelhams from Tresco Abbey Gardens on how they've fared during the pandemic

It was established in the nineteenth century in the ruins of an old Benedectine Abbey.

But nowadays, the Abbey Garden on Tresco is known around the world for its amazing variety of exotic plants from as far afield as Burma and New Zealand.

And while the pandemic has made it tricky for most of us to get there, that doesn't mean we can't explore it 'virtually'.

Garden curator Mike Nelhams has been telling our weekend presenter Jack Murley about how past few months have been on the island.

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