Charles Darwin, the Pencil and the Orchid.

Early Purple Orchids, a native plant, are in flower at the moment. Unfortunately, there will be no days out to see them for me this year but I do have a single plant growing here in the garden. How it came to be there is a mystery of nature. It is in a garden border …

The Selection!

Dan Pearson’s book, Natural Selection, draws on ten years of his columns for the Observer newspaper and are arranged in a calendar format, a diary of gardening notes. As with all such compilations, the individual parts, while all excellent in themselves, do not add up to a unified book. The organisation of the selected articles …