I’VE always loved sowing seeds and my earliest encounter was planting a packet of night-scented stocks that I’d acquired with my pocket money from the emporium that was once Woolworths. Oh, how I miss it! This was the place to acquire plants, before the advent of the garden centre, and on Saturday mornings it was chock-a-block.
Most children headed for the pick-and-mix sweets, but I used to rummage