Four springs ago, we planted a baby horse chestnut sapling. I'd seen photographs of mature trees in full bloom and was smitten - vis...

...of watering, pruning, staking, hoping, tying, winding, training, cutting, dreaming, swearing, caring, reading, praying, raking, sweeping,...

Saturday dawned bright, warm and sunny! I headed straight for the garden...oh, I had plans...to tidy, weed, edge and compost the entire plac...