Forty years ago I sat down to discuss the vexed topics of winter-flowering irises and autumn-flowering nerines. I had never written a gardening article before and I was doing these two entirely on spec. I never imagined that I would write more than 2,000 others in a weekly sequence, all for the same newspaper, the FT.
40年前，我初涉園藝類文章，探討的是冬季開花的鳶尾(irises)和秋季開花的尼潤屬植物(nerines)，當時如何種植這兩種植物的話題眾說紛紜。我之前從未寫過園藝類文章，而且寫這兩種植物的文章完全是冒險做法。我壓根沒想過自己之后會寫下2000多篇此類文章，每周一篇未曾間斷過，而且所有的文章都是為《金融時報》寫的專欄。
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