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A one-man play based on Reginald Arkell’s 1950 novel Old Herbaceous will tour to Broadwindsor this year.

A one-man play based on Reginald Arkell’s 1950 novel Old Herbaceous will tour to Sandford Orcas, Broadwindsor and Child Okeford this year.

THE WASHINGTON POST – The temptation when choosing gardening clothes is to compromise. After all, you’re working outside, in the soil. Anything you wear is bound to get dirty. When I started gardening, I wore old clothes, figuring I would use them up. Once that was a pair of jeans that kept falling down while […]

The temptation when choosing gardening clothes is to compromise. After all, youre working outside, in the soil. Anything you wear is bound to get dirty.

“You had to start as a boy, digging weeds from between stones with a broken dinner knife; scrubbing the pots and the greenhouse floors. Then you became, in turn, an improver, learning to dig and stoke...

“You had to start as a boy, digging weeds from between stones with a broken dinner knife; scrubbing the pots and the greenhouse floors. Then you became, in turn, an improver, learning to dig and stoke...

“[I]t wasn’t until I cracked open Eleanor Perenyi’s “Green Thoughts,” a tart, smart and beautifully written set of alphabetical essays ... that I realized how much was really going on here, right unde...

“To love a garden is to be in love with words: With potageries and racemes, corymbs, hispids and corms. To love a garden is to be in love with possibility for it can never, almost b...