Not all flowers are welcome

This week, chrysanths, Christmas, and how many fairy lights is too many fairy lights? Plus an easy recipe for brussels sprouts.

The week before November 1 at the garden centre.

I’ve shared with you a few times now stories of my favourite fancy-pants plant nurseries in the region, but a gardener cannot live by species pelargoniums and Japanese secateurs alone. Sometimes you need a bag of grit. When I need a bag of grit, or a plastic trug or some gardening clogs, I usually go to th…