Time out
As the wet and cold and darkness set in, there’s time to snub your gumboots, ditch the hoe and turn on the telly for some armchair gardening. If such apparent idleness makes you uneasy, look upon it as research, finding inspiration and pleasure in the toils and imaginations of others. Tool sharpening and cleaning, or seed sorting while you watch may also assuage any guilt.
: The Don is an erudite guide around greatness in the fabulous (Apple TV+). Though for more practical know-how, catch up with him in (). () is an absorbing look at the role of seeds and () set over a year in a Wellington community garden and starring nonagenarian nun Sister Loyola. In the same vein as // etc, is () whose contestants vie for victory as they create massive floral sculptures.
