Sitting in the Shade

Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh

For more than 45 years Hugh Johnson has written Trad''s Diary, delighting in recording his observations of his own garden, as well as many others, and of the wider natural world.

Free to turn his attention to whatever is happening in that season, or simply something that piques his interest, his subjects are as diverse as the sounds of water, forest walks, the names of r...