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the oddly named Fluffius Muppetus.Typing on the Void documents everyday life as a gardener (sorry, head propagator) at Lytes Cary, a National Trust property in Somerset.The Inelegant Gardener mixes stories about her garden with fascinating stuff about

. How difficult was that? Looks very hard but let me talk you through the process, step by step:1. Buy seeds2. Disturb ground.3. Sow Seeds3. Go back inside.4. Wait. (There is an option of pouring oneself a cool something at this point in the proceedings

, your safest bet is the white double Dianthus 'Mrs Sinkins' which smells like the wrists of wood nymphs. It's one of the old garden pinks (great scent, short flowering season, most of them about 30cm high) and was originally bred in 1868 by John Sinkins

. Jekka is the most fabulous nurserywoman and her displays almost always win gold medals (13 at Chelsea and 61 in total). This year looks as if it going to be another corker: particularly as she says that this will be her last self-funded effort.The woad

If my calculations are right this is the 100th blog that I've written for gardenersworld.com - a mildly momentous anniversary (thank you, by the way, for reading). I've been trying to think of an appropriately significant subject about which

't realised that it was going to be quite this occasional but here, two-and-a-half years later, is episode two.Richard Cox was born in 1776, worked as a brewer in Bermondsey until his retirement to Colnbrook (Berkshire) in 1820. To keep himself amused Mr Cox