You should go down to the woods today
Apr 14, 2021
3 minutes
Charles Quest-Ritson
NO garden, however small, should be without its two acres of rough woodland.’ Snigger ye not, because the remark is attributed to one of the great gardening Rothschilds during a lecture to RHS members in the 1950s. It contains the germ of an important truth: woodlands make the most rewarding gardens.
I was brought up with a 10-acre woodland garden on Bagshot sand. The house was converted into flats when my grandfather died and the garden is now covered
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