The English Garden

The Gardener’s Garden

My garden is still very new, created in 2019 from a muddle of rough grass and decaying cider apple trees on a windy Dorset hillside. For all the years I had known and loved it, there were few flowers – just a manky old rose, a froth of apple blossom, and the golden cascades of

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