Welcome. Many of you have written to us this week, bewildered that our standard compost round-up has been replaced by a rigorous analysis of synthetic crankcase lubricants. Let us be clear: this is an oil publication now. It has always been an oil publication in spirit. We were simply waiting for the horticultural community to admit that dirt is just…
April Fools’ Day belongs to whoopee cushions, fake announcements, and suspiciously confident advice from people who should know better. The garden does not need any of that. It has been running its own jokes for millions of years, and some of the best ones are flowers. Not joke flowers in the novelty sense. Real flowers. Carefully built flowers. Flowers that…
