Day 50: head gardeners

Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year

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We’re all head gardeners at home. We get to make the decisions, manage the budget, hand out tasks to the under-gardeners, though we rarely have a staff and volunteers to manage, car parks to supervise, or the impact of hundreds of visitors to consider. Reading the accounts of fourteen different head gardeners in Ambra Edwards’ appropriately titled volume (Head Gardeners, Pimpernel Press, 2017) was a delightful education, and so I was pleased when today’s post brought me the updated paperback edition of the book, on sale 4 March, with an additional two stories (from Stephen Griffith of Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens and Fiona Dennis at Charleston Farmhouse). You can read my review of the original book here.

An apology

Have you signed up to get my daily blog posts by email? If so, you may have noticed their absence from your inbox on Tuesday and Wednesday this week – it seems the blog is a victim of its own success and hit a monthly limit on mailings. Since I’ve no immediate intention to upgrade to a more generous plan, there’s every chance of this happening towards the middle of each month. Rest assured though, the posts are being published here every day, and should you wish to come and visit, you’ll find a new one at 5am each morning. They’re just may be a slight monthly hiccup getting them from here to your email, for which I apologise. 


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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.

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