Spring is in the air. The birds are singing and the delicate smell of the
first blossoms is wafting across the English countryside. So it鈥檚 time to pull
on the wellies, jump into the Range Rover and pollute the air around your local
garden centre.
So what will grow in the shady 20-foot-square patch of builders鈥� rubble at
the back of your house? There is no shortage of tips on the Web. A good starting
point is the Smithsonian Institution鈥檚 Seeds of Change Garden pages
(http://horizon.nmsu.edu/garden/seasons/spring.html). They even have a
checklist of gardening equipment, ranging from the predictable trowels and rakes
to railway sleepers鈥攚hich could be useful if your estate is so spacious
that you need a private railway to get round it.
