New Year Resolution for 2013: This is the beginning of a year in which I will write many more blogs, even if no one reads them...it will be a kind of dairy through the year. I always write one in my head as I hack or weed or sow. I will also post some photos of nice gardens I see or have seen just for the fun and because they are so moral-raising. In a an article about happiness the highest percentage of happy people in England are 'horticulturalists' and let's all keep that in mind after such a horried wet slugg-infested summer in 2012.