Ken Thompson is a biologist but has been writing about gardening for over fiftee
n years, and has been a gardener for longer than he would care to remember. In t
his collection of articles originally written for the Daily Telegraph he sets ou
t to examine some of gardening's most intriguing questions, and even manages to
track down answers to a few of them. Why is that we seem to care more for common
rather than rare animals? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their veget
ables? And what do bees do that improves strawberries? From the difference betwe
en British and Spanish bluebells, why Matucana and High Scent sea peas are far s
uperior to the Valerie Harrod variety, and the easy way to sex an earwig, Thomps
on provides an expert's miscellany of gardening knowledge, aimed at making you n
ot necessarily a better gardener - but quite probably a far more thoughtful one.
