The plants that grow in our gardens connect us not just to loved ones of the years ahead, but also our future selves
I sometimes wonder which memories of the gardens of their childhood my young sons will take with them into their old age.
Keys To My Life review: Eilish O’Carroll on finding love – ‘We were both straight women living a straight life ... My biggest problem was my Catholic guilt’ Plants, it turns out, have been intriguing me since I was tiny, becoming as much a part of my interior landscape as people. Many of my most vivid memories of them are also inextricably linked to memories of the gardens in which they once grew, and of the gardeners who tended them. For this reason, they remain like doorways into the past, potent living reminders of other times and other places.
True, not all plant names that commemorate notable people have stood the test of time, whether because they’ve subsequently achieved a level of infamy rather than fame, or are names that have become negatively associated with the colonial ways of faded empires.
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