On 9/2/05 7:37 pm, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:


~ In article , jane
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~ who was it who said (roughly) "however small one's garden, one should
~ always put aside half an acre or so for woodland"?
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~ Think it was either C E Lucas-Phillips or Vita SW

Both were renowned for their unaffected, egalitarian manner on
gardening matters and VSW in particular has not dated at all in either
gardening ideas or manner; well worth reading.

Imho, more squirm-worthy garden authors include Beverly Nichols, (but
at least he laughed at himself); Martha Stewart, and currently, Roy
Strong..sorry, Sacha, but I find his brand of acquired social
pretensions really detract from "The Laskett" .

No problem - I see that myself. But if you look past that at what he did
there with his (now deceased) wife, it was and is quite something. I like,
too, that he is quite open about his origins and does NOT pretend to be what
he is not. But he IS talented, I think. I've met him, briefly, twice and
we are unlikely to be buddies but he does know his oignons. ;-) And of
course, in its own way, that could be just the book and background for our
author.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)