Never mind the width – feel the quality. I’ve been occupied by that thought for the past few months while contemplating our move to a house with a garden measured in yards, not acres. Having had three large – very large – gardens over the past 30 years, I’m now taking lessons from chums with smaller plots to see how best to maximise reduced dimensions. Deprived now of ten acres, we are granted instead the space of a tennis court. My lifelong passion has been trees and shrubs; I’ve planted two species-rich arboreta and seen both reach semimaturity. The loss now of a chance to make a third irks me. But, turning 80 this month… The answer is a Potted Arboretum – the name of my new passion and the title of a book I’ve already begun to write. Otherwise known as container gardening, the manner of growing plants in...
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