Peter Dowdall: The first rule of gardening? There are no rules

Lockdown has given us the opportunity to go back to our childhood and revisit  the great outdoors, says Peter Dowdall

If you want to grow lilies such as this Regal Lily in pots, remember, more is better. Picture: iStock

Gardening is a great secret. Those of us who “get” gardening, we must be a bit like those members of secret societies and furtive lodges. 

You see, there is a whole population of us who exist in amongst everyone else in clear sight but speaking a different language and in most cases, exuding a type of calmness, a somewhat different energy to non-gardeners.