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. But it was the gardens and floral displays that put a smile on my family's faces. I always thought that gardening and floral displays were pretty well an English obsession, but comparing what we saw along the roads and lanes, and indeed in people's front gardens, I

of cress.I love growing cress. The seed is ridiculously cheap, and incredibly quick to germinate. And, of course, growing cress is a great way of introducing children to the pleasures of gardening. Just buy the packets of seed, get sowing and you'll see

am sad to see the back of summer (what summer?!!). But there is something else I am pleased about, in a perverse, time-saving sort of a way.Snails - not the small ones or the medium sized ones, just the large vegetable and ornamental plant