Most of you, being gardeners, will have spent a fair bit of your time wandering around garden centres. Some of you may even have bought a few things. Now imagine having 250,000 plants delivered. 250,000 holes to be dug, 250,000 pots to be recycled, 250,000 plants to be watered and cosseted through a first winter. It’s as if the entire populations of Worcester and Preston have appeared at your door, each bearing a plant.
Lucy Wharton knows exactly what this looks like, since she (along with her team and the head gardener, Steve Porter) has been largely responsible for finding homes for that many plants over the past few years at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. This is one of the biggest, most beautifully kept and
