WINDOW BOX WARS

PEOPLE have criticised new Gardeners’ Question Time chairwoman Kathy Clugston for never having cultivated anything bigger than a window box.

As someone who managed to kill several perfectly healthy window boxes in the recent heatwave, may I just say that they are not as easy as they look. Anyone can stick a plant in soil and watch it grow; keeping a plant from shrivelling to a crispy corpse in a window box requires truly green fingers.