Yesterday I heard
some of “Gardeners’ Question Time” BBC Radio
4 while I changing the bed. One of the questions caught my ear. It concerned
fashion in plants, which were going out & which coming in. I thought of our
garden & that of my mother’s in the 1950-60s & the differences.
Ours has the
old-fashioned favourites of delphiniums & lupins, both now making a
comeback. Hers had gladioli, now well out of fashion. She also had loads of
tulips in season. We have none.
They reckoned that
part of the reason for the change in horticultural fashions lies in the fact
that some plants became so all-pervasive that people get bored with them or
want something different to distinguish their garden. I suspect there is an
element of truth in that. Old favourites are now returning to fashion as they
are beautiful plants & now once more unusual.
The same seems to be
the case with food. As I said yesterday, we’re having Corned Beef Hamburgers
for dinner tonight – they’re waiting in the fridge ready to go in the oven this
evening. During the Second World War & immediately post war, in the years
of rationing, corned beef, pressed tongue, luncheon meat were all pervasive.
For that matter tinned pilchards was another favourite. These days you rarely
see them, yet they can be delicious. We love our corned beef. I know it’s
rather fatty & salty, but it’s not as though we have it every day. I think
it’s time it made a comeback in our diet, along with those tinned pilchards.
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