Gardens Illustrated Magazine

FINDING TIME

’ve been thinking a lot about the passage of time lately. I’ve spent the past year almost entirely in the company of a baby. He turned up on the spring equinox, and since then I’ve marked the changing seasons with other milestones – first solid food, standing up and sleeping through the night. Time has shrunk (nothing moves as slowly as the minutes before bedtime with a teething baby

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