In the Garden 
Peter Campbell
Our hedge has gone. The new railings are up. Weeds have begun to cover the bare ground. A dandelion is already flowering. Its seeds will soon appear and be carried off by the wind. Very probably some will find bare earth and germinate. They will not be popular. ‘Not easy to eradicate, regrowth occurs from root fragments,’ the Pest and Weed Expert says.
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Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Other articles by this contributor:
In the Physic Garden · Peter Campbell in Chelsea
At Tate Britain · Gainsborough
At the British Library · Great Nations of Europe Coming Through
In Bexhill · Ben Nicholson
At the V&A · Peter Campbell celebrates Penguin’s 70th birthday
At the British Museum · John White’s New World
At the Hayward · Alexander Rodchenko
At the National Portrait Gallery · being photographed
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