Put on a Warm Coat and Get on With It - Gardenista
I am at the top of a ladder under an old pergola reaching, just reaching a little farther, for the next overgrown vine. Ah, the joys of under-gardening in an English winter, when the work day begins in darkness outdoors and ends in darkness outdoors. Photographs by Kendra Wilson for Gardenista. At the upstairs-downstairs–outdoors situation where I find myself, things have really “improved” since the days of dozens of gardeners. The park surrounding a big house is however a wonderful thing to find yourself in at any time of day or in any season How often does anyone... ...get such a wide open and unpopulated view the light in this managed arcadia doing things it would never get a chance to do among walls and buildings I ask a hardened plantswoman from Connecticut who now lives near Bath how she copes with winter. I don’t mind the days getting shorter as much as their refusal to get significantly longer for such a long time,” she says. Cheerful garden designer and broadcaster James Alexander-Sinclair takes winter in his stride. Head gardener Tracey Morgan, who works on a private estate in Leicestershire, simply loathes working in the dark. However gardeners are positive people and she insists There is always tea and open fires gloves and socks And there is never... ...a lack of things to do contradicting what most of us think when staring out the kitchen window on to a lifeless space Now I have the killer question, one to sort out the “real” gardeners.