‘There will be disappointments. The glorious visions that are conjured up when sowing or planting don’t always materialise and the...

‘Where the Wild Things Are' was not meant to please everybody – only children. A letter from a seven-year-old boy encourages me to think...

Gardens that give space to self-sowers have a comfortable, personal feel. These plants fill a gap and are wonderful accessories in our...

‘The peach gown she'd chosen was the colour of the sunrise, the rippling watered silk seeming to subtly change from rose to pink to...

‘But we are running out of colours,’ said Mr. Violet, intervening. ‘That cannot be the case,’ said Mr. White. ‘There is an infinite...

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments Mary...

The most urgent thing to do was to plant hedges. We were extravagant over this, and planted yew, and have never regretted it. Everybody...

So, the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of...

I wish it need not have happened in my time' said Frodo. 'So do I' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is...