Percy Thrower with Albert Parkes (Nottingham).
Seasonal work in garden and greenhouse and a film visit to a large cottage garden in Nottinghamshire.
Hedges of thorn, lonicera, and golden privet-daffodils and primula in sheltered borders. Chaenomeles, skimmia, and silver birch; Planting gladioli and forcing rhubarb
From the Midlands