Jackie French: How to garden when you're not at home

By Jackie French
Updated November 18 2014 - 10:08am, first published September 20 2014 - 12:00am
Get digging: Spring has bloomed city wide.
Get digging: Spring has bloomed city wide.
Start peeling: Shallots are a once-a-year delight for the time poor.
Start peeling: Shallots are a once-a-year delight for the time poor.

I am home! Home to a sea of white damson plum blossom, peach flowers in 50shades of pink, nodding grass orchid heads and mating wombats. And soil. Lovely chocolate soil to get my hands into.