Our garden began with a conversation about provenance and a place to belong; about home-grown food and swapping tomatoes for runner beans, or sharing with those who don’t have much.
What is community? I returned to Portsmouth from London seeking a better work-life balance. Everyone knows it’s difficult to relocate and volunteering is an easy way to make new contacts, but where? There are so many worthy places.
At the moment everyone seems to want to get ahead and surge on with planting ready for spring, but do wait until you have a frost which will kill off summer bedding plants before you rush out there trying to clear everything away,
We’ve been buying a few bulbs each week but not planted any because the garden still looks beautiful as we’ve been keeping up with all our dead-heading.
It's good to read your letters and this week I had three about looking after phaleonopsis – moth orchid – so instead of putting this into questions and answers, I thought it would interest many of you.
