![]() ![]() Naturally I respect their opinions, honed to a shaving edge of perfect taste by decades of stropping on white gardens and species rhododendrons. Yellow flowers have no place in them, they say, and the same goes for dahlias. We get to understand quite a lot about the garden at The Hope, its trees, its vegetables, its borders of flowers: "Many of my sophisticated gardening friends have rules about such borders. He's now gathered these magnificently surreal pieces into a book (published by New Hat, £10 order online at .uk).Īre they about gardening? Tangentially, yes. He writes a column (always the first thing I turn to) in an excellent quarterly magazine called Hortus, which is where he first began to spin stories about The Hope, his place in the Welsh Marches. I've never even met him, though I'd like to. You can buy every grown-up you know a copy of Digging with the Duchess by Sam Llewellyn. Yes – that does mean a bit of a scrabble to sort out presents, but here's the good news. ![]() ![]() I refuse to think about Christmas until December. 'Festive Cheer! Book your Christmas meal now!" screeches the banner on a particularly unattractive roadhouse I pass on our route to the motorway. ![]()
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