DEAF EARS Alley links the fynbos, pool-side section of my compact garden to the salad patch outside my kitchen door. The alley, always in the shade, was named by my wife, Jackie. This is what happened: I asked Jackie what I should plant in the shade that would grow and bring colour to the alley between my home and my neighbour’s property. In a call from London where she is now stranded by Corona, she offered a few suggestions. Later she asked how the plants were doing. “Not well,” I replied. “In fact, not at all because I didn’t […]
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