Tag Archives: Leonard Meager

Peas, perfect peas

Posted on 29/10/2016 by The Gardens Trust

Move over Capability Brown, you have to share your year of fame with peas!  It has probably slipped your notice (as I confess it did mine) but the United Nations has declared 2016 to be the ‘International Year of Pulses’ (IYP) , … Continue reading →

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Night Soil and other euphemisms…

Posted on 11/07/2015 by The Gardens Trust

We generally  think of the Victorians as very proper and respectable,  when even the  the legs of the piano were covered up,  and no risqué or unpleasant subjects were ever raised in polite society. So  it was a bit of a shock to … Continue reading →

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