A gardener's control is illusory - thanks to a myriad of other - "often argumentative" - organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run.
MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... read more
A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more