What do you think is the rarest thing in your garden? A special snowdrop? A mature pocket-handkerchief tree? Neither, I reckon. It’s clear to me that the rarest thing in any garden is… silence. It appears to be the one commodity that money can’t buy.
A stately home close to us came up for sale a few years ago. A wealthy billionaire arrived in his helicopter to take a look. He landed it on the lawn beside the impressive Palladian-fronted property
