Forty years ago I sat down to discuss the vexed topics of winter-flowering irises and autumn-flowering nerines. I had never written a gardening article before and I was doing these two entirely on spec. I never imagined that I would write more than 2,000 others in a weekly sequence, all for the same newspaper, the FT.
40年前,我初涉園藝類文章,探討的是冬季開花的鳶尾(irises)和秋季開花的尼潤屬植物(nerines),當時如何種植這兩種植物的話題衆說紛紜。我之前從未寫過園藝類文章,而且寫這兩種植物的文章完全是冒險做法。我壓根沒想過自己之後會寫下2000多篇此類文章,每週一篇未曾間斷過,而且所有的文章都是爲《金融時報》寫的專欄。
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