Sofias Country Gardens

The most beautiful first line of any book I've ever read was Karen Blixen's Out of Africa which begins "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" . In all its simplicity, it tells you all you need to know in the wistfulness of the past tense she uses. More hopeful and happy is the most frequently quoted sentence from the first chapter that goes "Up in this high air you breathed easily… you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be" . The

A year ago I had an operation to help with my back problems which meant that the whole of last years gardening season went to waste. It...

This New Year 2025 I woke up in New York, as you do when life continues to throw random curved balls at you and so much of what you do is...

There is an old saying in Finland that Rowan berry trees can't carry two, which means that if there is a good rowanberry year the...