The horticultural interest at this one-and-a-half-acre tourist attraction is what lies between the six model villages: a miniature landscape of farms, fields, woods, lakes and rolling hills planted with more than 3,000 shrubs and trees.
A thorny foreign policy issue arose after Thatcher approved a request from the German horticultural industry to name a rose in her honour.
Gardening Leave uses horticultural therapy to help ex-service personnel cope with the aftershock of armed combat.
He's currently evaluating the horticultural effects of over 100 different biochar variations ranging from chicken manure to nutshells and even discarded food waste from university cafeterias.
Tastes have changed, but in Backhouse's day it was a horticultural sensation.
Meanwhile the garish creatures, the epitome of naff horticultural style, have been allowed into exhibits at the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time in a century.
These farms are in turn part of a Kenyan horticultural industry that produces fruit and vegetables as well as flowers.In this section Two heads are worse than one What do you recall?
In it the columns are grouped, usefully, into four seasonal chapters and address the gamut of his horticultural life, past and present planting and propagating, battling with wildlife at home in the Cotswolds, visiting gardens in America, Ireland, Europe and Britain, and considering other plantsmen and women.These mini-memoirs are a strength.
No, he was merely using an appropriate horticultural metaphor for a market about which this column has had some harsh words in recent months: the market for junk bonds.The year before last, it turns out, Berkshire Hathaway, the company of which the revered Mr Buffett is chairman, bought some $8 billion of junk bonds because they were very cheap.
The duchess also annoyed English Heritage, who wanted her to recreate one of the gardens that had previously occupied the site.The Europeanness of the design has not put off visitors: 318,000 came in 2001-02, the garden's first year, when all there was to see was the horticultural equivalent of roadworks.
Many more horticultural history books appeared from the 1970s onwards, by authors ranging from the populist Edward Hyams to the scholarly Christopher Thacker.
