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There are some plants that evoke a sense of place or, more personally, a moment in time so strongly that when encountered somewhere else, serve to carry you back there. A hot house tomato and the smell of the stem is the raised concrete patio of my grandmother’s garden in Devon, Eucalyptus is driving through a Cretan avenue, an enormous flaking branch in the back that Marc had pulled into our hire car just to get a better whiff. Sage is the Dordogne and cooking fish on a wire barbecue however many times we’ve cooked with it since…