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Jeremy Kirk, Sub Editor, The Garden

  • Location: Peterborough
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  • Date Joined: 09 Mar 2009

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Fending off errant hyphens and greengrocers’ apostrophes keeps me busy on The Garden. With a BA(Hons) in English Language and Literature, I have worked with the printed word in one form or another for most of my career, except for the best job ever – a greenkeeper during the Summer of Drought – and a spell in beautiful southern California where I qualified as a California Certified Nurseryman. It was in the early 1970s that I discovered Wisley and the RHS, following (as ever) a snippet on BBC2. I became a member (we were then called Fellows), which I kept up until moving abroad in the mid-1980s. I have worked for the Society since February 1998.

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  • We’re going up, up, up

    Published on 01 May 2009 at 01:11 PM

    The Garden, as some of you may know, is produced in Peterborough. And not wishing to show my ignorance through inexpert horticultural musings, nor put you to sleep with a discourse on misplaced commas, I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate our local football team, Peterborough United (“The Posh”), for achieving back-to-back promotions. From League Two to the Championship in two years is an excellent result and many of the team’s followers in the city now think their ambition to become a Premiership club in three to five years is within their reach. Success must be hereditary, for the Manager who has guided the team to promotion two years running is Darren Ferguson, son of the rather better-known Sir Alex...

    My wife and I have been given tickets to the final game tomorrow at home vs Swindon, which should have quite a party atmosphere. Maybe I should wear a sprig of my Ceanothus ‘A.T.Johnson’ to the match; it is just coming out now and the nearest I can find to Posh’s official colour blue

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