The benefits of a sweet scented garden

Peter Dowdall muses on the bittersweet relinquishing of a much-cherished space in the face of old age.

Watching farmers cutting their fields on a rare sunny evening recently, I was thinking about how much hard work is involved in that life.

But of course, I know working on the land and with the ground is different — it’s not work, it’s a lifestyle. There are few things as relaxing and rewarding as tending the garden well into the night-time hours on a sunny summer evening.