Youngsters should gift the oldies in their lives something practical or frivolous; oldies should indulge the young with something enduring. But what? I've been seeking inspiration from a throng of mixed-aged gardening and ‘outdoorsy’ friends.
‘I can't walk all the way over there,’ said Maude, an octogenarian friend curious to see what the bold blue splashes were in a herbaceous border on the other side of a tennis-courtsized lawn in a garden we were visiting for the first time. I. ‘Ah, they're asters, indispensable September gems.’
