Putting the brakes on runaway consumerism through 'freegardening'... rethinking our addiction to high-dependency container gardening... exploring our growing prospects in a topsy-turvy climate... why pulling down garden fences can reboot biodiversity... how local and diverse 'earth centres' could help gardening communities flourish... In this thought-provoking, cage-rattling collection of essays exploring gardening's place in nature, John Walker burrows deep into gardening's subsoil to uproot thorny issues, while encouraging gardeners to see their role as a force for good.

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Reflections of a Ten Pound Pom forty years on Can you prove mathematically that your fifty year-old boss is really only 32? And do it in rhyme? When a respected poet says 'there is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange' could you come up with a four verse 'poem' liberally sprinkled with those supposedly non-existent words - in ten minutes? For years his knack for finding the right words meant that John Walker was the 'go-to' man in the office whenever some silly verses were required in a birthday card or farewell card. But it was challenges like these that led to an interest...