How many gardening books do you have in your house? A couple maybe? Or is it half a bookshelf?
If so, then do they offer ‘Complete gardening’ experiences or perhaps more specialised books like borders, alpine plants, bonsai gardening..
A quick leaf through their pages will display a almost improbable array of fantastic looking flowers and vegetables, all in perfect health. Who would be foolish enough to publish photos of flowers mangled by greedy slugs or bolting vegetables. Yet that is what some of us get when we garden.
An inspiring book read by the fire in the depths of winter rarely materialises into a garden dripping with gorgeous flowers and plump edible vegetables. Sometimes it seems that something else always gets there first.
Looks a pretty good specimen….
Until it is rotated and it’s other half seen.
…Aggghhhh! something got to my beautiful aubergine first
So you can see, all is not what it seems in the jungle. The fauna are just as keen as the flora to thrive.
Gardening in a Jungle 