Many of you will know by now that one of my bugbears is masses of soil on show. Some gardeners still leave plenty of the brown stuff around their coveted plants, I’m guessing to show them off as individual specimens or maybe they are just a little controlling (or phobic) and — perhaps like their items of food on a plate — don’t want their plants touching each other.
Dark, light-sapping soil has never been the best medium to set plants off. It can make a garden feel particularly gloomy at this time of year and, if left exposed (and is dug and hoed regularly), loses its structure too. If you have a garden, you have bought all the ground and soil; I’d say all
