This extract from AG 8 February 1970 looks at inexpensive and easy-to-grow annuals
IT’S strange how one looks back to ‘the good old days’ of childhood whenever ‘the simple way of life’ is mentioned. Certainly, my own little garden patch I cultivated when I was 10-12 years old gave me immense pleasure. All summer long I could be justly proud of the flowers raised from tuppenny or threepenny packets of hardy annuals of such easy old favourites as cornflowers that the peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies loved so well, nasturtiums whose hot leaves made rather