Gardening – too much of a consuming passion?

My thanks to John Walker for his response to Fairy Front Doors: Kitsch or Cute? As ever, he got powerfully to the point: “Surely,” wrote John, “anyone buying this kind of tat is truly away with the fairies.”

And I rather liked them… But the ornaments are part of a stream of “useless stuff” which he feels is encouraging excess consumption. Gardeners, says John, are the one group who have “real potential to hit the brake of consumption and help slow its symptoms, one of which is climate change.”