Most gardening books have cheery titles promising beautiful borders, amazing annuals or an effortless vegetable patch. Clare Hastings wanted to call her book Gardening From Beyond The Grave. ‘It’s not a gloomy title at all!’ she cries. ‘I like to imagine myself as a contented spirit in the garden after I’ve gone, watching over it…
Helena Dollimore, MP for Hastings and Rye, posted on social media about her recent visit to the Alexandra Park Greenhouse in Hastings. The greenhouse was a derelict site until 2013, when a group of volunteers and a park ranger began the restoration project. The garden has a charity plant shop (Image: Helena Dollimore) Their vision…