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very favourite garden destinations. I love seeing what we would regard as house plants growing with weed-like vigour on the roadside, or trimmed to form a hedge. Poinsettia always looks wonderful there, not to mention the tangled jungles of Opuntia

It may not be 'nice' it may not be kind, and it certainly isn't my normal style... but I've taken to victimising ants! Well, it's not exactly a campaign, but I have to confess that despite my usual "ants belong in the garden... they got there before

of unwanted materials. But horseflies are a menace to horses and humans and no doubt a lot of other creatures too. Gardening has suddenly become a high-risk business - I seem to do more leaping about than weeding and sowing. We even have a house rule