Who needs a master plan?
WHEN my wife and I worked together on the history of our garden at Thenford, we wanted to call it Mistake by Mistake: the Creation. Our anxious publishers talked us out of it with the advice that no book with so negative a title would sell. Perhaps they were right, as the sales figures indicate, but we both harbour our doubts. To create a garden is to make mistakes. No couple was better equipped to do so.
