– A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed –

television or through the gardening press, encouraging this level of expenditure.

I’m not in a position to lecture anyone about expenditure: my garden employs one gardener fulltime and has benefited over the years from a great deal of part-time assistance. I regret none of the expenditure (even the heroic failures), as long as I think that the money was, in principle, well used. But even the most lavish gardener in Great Britain – as it were, the Duchess of Northumberland – would think twice about spending on the large scale at the same rate per square inch that the amateur urban gardener is encouraged to spend on a small back garden.

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