Guest post by AJLR

I love gardening. I came to it relatively late, in the second half of my twenties, but since then I've been slowly learning how to grow different things, which plants prosper in particular conditions, how to keep things (mostly) alive and well and growing greenly. I'm fortunate in that I live in a part of the world – Southern England, right on the coast (about 300 yards from the sea) – that is friendly to a wide range of plants.

The garden that goes round our house is not...