Emma Townshend: Find it impossible to get down to the hard graft of boring gardening jobs?...

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It's easy to feel energetic about the fun stuff. Fun means deciding to grow a new kind of salad leaf or setting off into the countryside to discover the delights of the plant list at an unfamiliar nursery. Not fun is also simple to identify. It's those tricky-to-love, dogged tasks of editing and re-making which form much of the real work in a garden. For me, calling up the enthusiasm to dig up those "Pheasant's Eye" narcissi bulbs which are now growing in the shade and getting round to planting them elsewhere? Hard.










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