An Introduction

Gosh .

America . The undecomposed honest-to-goodness US of A. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave , etc . etc .

I am charmed to be capable to move amongst you discerning reader ofFine horticulture , spreading idle news from across the oceans , a sprinkling of compost and general garden jolliness . Thank you very much for the invitation .

I guess this first post should explain to you who , what and why I am here . I am a garden designer , diarist , lecturer , occasional broadcaster and blogger based in England . I endure with my wife and three large children ( who are of an age where they are rarely here ) in a planetary house we built on the site of an honest-to-god farmyard inNorthamptonshire .

It is about an Akko in size with flock of mete that brim , bombilation and fettle with people of colour . We also have an woodlet and deal a vegetable garden with my female parent - in - law .

So that is about the long and unforesightful of it : you now know ( almost ) everything . I am certain more details will trickle out as we get to cognise each other well .

Over on this side of the pond we like to think that we have been garden for long than anybody ( which is manifestly untrue if you factor in in the Assyrians , Chinese , Japanese , Babylonian , Romans , Greeks and many other civilisations ) and it is definitely a compulsion which impress a mint of Brits . This is helped by the fact that we do have a remarkably tolerant climate with lots of rain , no deserts and not much to speak of in the path of snow . We can grow band of thing and we have gardens of great variety from grand Downton - Abbey - type land to little back yards in the middle of cities .

I will be write for your on a regular basis and will utilize those bulletins to fulfill you in on penetration into British horticulture life history . The practical , the type , the mundane , the edible , the decorative and the enormously lovely .

Please tag along for the ride .

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