Forty years ago I sat down to discuss the vexed topics of winter-flowering irises and autumn-flowering nerines. I had never written a gardening article before and I was doing these two entirely on spec. I never imagined that I would write more than 2,000 others in a weekly sequence, all for the same newspaper, the FT.
40年前，我初涉园艺类文章，探讨的是冬季开