The English Garden

Three’s Not Enough

Gooseberries make unlikely heroes. After all, no one wants to be a gooseberry – the embarrassingly superfluous third in a trio of two lovers, plus one. Lowly, green, hairy, rebarbative, unlovely. Who could love a gooseberry? But we should. When did you last see gooseberries in a supermarket? They are the home gardener’s best-kept secret: left to ripen on

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