The English Garden

The Reviewer

Light Rains Sometimes Fall

by Lev Parikian Elliott & Thompson, £14.99

Gardeners, ever attuned to the weather, would probably agree that our four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, are something of a blunt instrument when it comes to categorising the climatic year. Even that old idiom about the month of March – in

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