Gertrude is the matriarch of the community gardens. She is the one who presides over the waiting list for plots. She is the one who decided that there should be a communal lemon tree, and where it should be planted. She arrives about once a week, grey hair wispy and eyes peering through bottle-top glasses […]
How does one become a gardener? I should say at the outset that although I harbor a strong and mostly secret belief that gardening is what life is really all about, I am not a real gardener. I cannot tell you the common names of many plants, let alone their botanical names. My garden is […]
Just a quick post to recommend two books by Peter Timms, a wise and wonderful gardener who writes lovely witty prose. He now lives in Tasmania, but used to live in Victoria, where he wreote his first gardening book “Making Nature”. You can read an extract here (http://www.austlit.com/chapters/timms-origins.html)
The book that has prompted me to write […]
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