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Welcome to my 600th post! And to celebrate such a momentous occasion I’m turning today to  the second of my garden-related  humour posts  and the genius of  William Heath Robinson. I was both surprised and delighted to discover that he … Continue reading →

I know that I normally only publish a new post on Saturday mornings but there a couple of things coming. up soon that I thought some of you might like to know about which justifies breaking my habit. The first … Continue reading →

August is traditionally the silly season in the media, so in keeping with that the next few posts are going to look at garden-related humour, beginning today with the work of Reginald Arkell. I can hear the muttering already.  Who … Continue reading →

One of the things that almost never ceases to amaze me is how many plants have been named after people who had little or no connections with them, and often wouldn’t even have known they existed let alone seen them. … Continue reading →

As regular readers will know I’m very fond of the work of garden writer Beverley Nichols, but until recently I hadn’t really taken much notice of his interest and involvement in flower arranging. True the subject crops up in several … Continue reading →