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December 19, 2015

This weather though!* We don’t quite have daffodils up and blooming here, like they do in all points from Cornwall …

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May 31, 2014

You won’t be gardening long before you feel the need for a little electricity. I don’t mean excitement: goodness, there’s …

March 31, 2014

Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun, they go and invent a sunflower that’s actually a …

March 20, 2013

The other day on the radio, a scientist was making a convincing case for the fact that we should all …

October 31, 2009

When the Irish poet Thomas Moore went on in a lamenting sort of way about ‘the last rose of summer’ …

July 11, 2009

While I was at Hampton Court I met a very nice man called Mark Diacono, who was telling me all …

January 20, 2009

Oh dear. A quick tour of my so-called jungle garden (i.e. the place I so optimistically planted up with climate …

October 6, 2008

I can’t believe it… we had our first frost of the year at the weekend. This is the first time …

August 25, 2008

I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to brag a bit. You see, I’ve been spending this week digging …