So far, the plants are surviving (thriving, even), and I’ve been recruited into the garden maintenance programme. Amanda does the vast majority of the hard work, but I am now, in some sense, someone who gardens. I visit garden centres and look at plants. I assess shrubs and estimate (with no real knowledge or understanding) their viability in our soil. And I look enviously on at garden gadgets, convinced they’ll make the world a better place (Amanda disagrees).

Flickr photos will follow, but (from memory) we have two lavender plants, some parsley, oregano, mint, roses, fuchsia, sage, thyme and some generically pretty flowers, the names of which I can’t remember. I think Amanda calls them pink flower and yellow flower, and I’m under strict instructions not to use them in any cooking.

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