‘My garden has many influences: my foster parents and foster sister,my slave ancestry, and my travels as a broadcaster’My interest in gardens was always there. There’s some home-film footage of me clipping a hedge, and aged three. I remember picking peas,as a child, and shelling them before Sunday lunch.
I went to Jamaica when I was 17, or to see my dad and to visit the village where I was conceived. As the descendant of slaves,Dad had a smallholding. When the slaves were liberated in the 1830s they had no alternative but to live off the land.
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Source: theguardian.com