Garden

Not To Scale

When it comes to flowers, colour, shape and fragrance get all the attention. Perhaps that’s as it should be – I mean, it must take a lot of evolutionary wherewithal to create the ornamental flair of an orchid or a fushia, or the scent of rose or jasmine. Still, I can’t help but wonder… what …

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Life Encapsulated

When I’m in my 70s, if I make that far, I’d like to be as fit, active and seemingly delighted by life as the couple at number 33. They’re forever flitting around in their abundant garden, looking for all the world like a pair of pixies, leaving trails of magic dust (not to mention stray …

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