Kitchen Garden

JUST ASK PIPPA!

How has your year gone, Pippa?

I’ve been so lucky, I’ve escaped the horrors of it really, just tucked myself away a little more than usual. For me the worst downside personally so far has been not being able to see my friends as easily as before and, on the work front, so many talks I should have been giving have had to be cancelled or postponed… and I really love the proper eye-to-eye contact of a talk at a gardening club!

Who do you credit for giving you your enthusiasm for all things gardening?

I owe it all to my lovely mother. She’s sadly no longer with me in person, but she’s still there in my heart – she taught me so much, all from a very young

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