It began with a rose...

The joy of finding the words and the way through my story to gardens and how they changed my life.....and reconnected me to my family, and all of you.

David Austin’s in a basket from the rose garden here at Moorfield.

This time a year ago I was asked to speak at the auspicious Sorrento Writer’s Festival, which is on again next month. I was a last minute ring in, so to speak, for a bestselling author, Janelle McCulloch, who could no longer make the event and who also happens to have a brilliant new book…