Letter of the week
Perennial memories
ALAN TITCHMARSH mentioned flowers among which his children grew up (In the garden, August 16). I have a plant in my garden that dates back to 1958.
At the time, we were living just outside Barnstaple in Devon, when my mother gathered a cutting of a plant growing close to the cliff at Baggy Point. My father was in the RAF and we moved house regularly. Every time we went to a new home, a cutting of what we affectionately called Baggy Point came with us and went into the new garden. And so the tradition continued, through 12 house moves. I!
