In recent weeks Ms. Dunn has planted two Chinese Jujube trees on tricky cliffs flanking each side of the driveway, which in a few years will produce exotic date-like fruits.

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The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.

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See who's sporting the jujube-size colored diamonds.

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