Do you remember the nursery rhyme, ‘Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?’ I certainly do. Now, not knowing Mary, I can’t fairly quantify how great a gardener she is, but judging by her response of ‘with silver bells and cockleshells, and pretty maids all in a row’, I deduce that she still has a few things to learn about gardening! For many of us when we start out on our gardening adventure, learning how our gardens grow is one of, if not the most important lesson to learn. We all have to start somewhere, and I recall, many, many decades ago, having to face the disappointment of plants that I’d spent good money on, not growing away, flowering or fruiting as I had hoped for. A stunning,…
