Slow gardening

THIS year, I was efficient about grooming our garden on Osney Island. By March, I’d brought it to a state of high preparedness for the season ahead, so freeing myself to focus on a far larger design that I was due to create for a friend and client. Then came the lockdown and the stern advice that, for weeks, perhaps months, I should regard our island plot as my entire self-isolating world.

I knew