Amateur Gardening

Toby Buckland is back!

Hello! It’s so good to be back looking out at you from these fine pages again. And I have to say… whatever you’ve been doing since we last saw each other, keep doing it, you look amazing!

It’s wonderful to be writing here again as it wasn’t something I thought would happen. When the news broke that AG, the oldest gardening publication in the world (and the friendliest), was closing its doors, it was like witnessing an old oak, loved by generations, topple to the ground. And just as with the loss of a big tree, you only recognise the true impact and see the huge gap after it has gone.

Around this sad time,

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